Stories by Sally Round

A group of Te Arawa iwi are trying to reclaim their forest from mobs of wallabies which they say are killing the bush and gobbling up farmland.

In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of greenhouse gases captured from geothermal power stations.

Kaipara-based Scottish vet Rory Dean has written a book based on his experiences as a rural vet in the UK and New Zealand.

A riverside tent becomes a classroom for the day for children taking part in the Ruamāhanga Farm Foundation project, connecting the awa with the local community.

Agriculture classes at school sometimes get a bad rap, but the Grow Hub is turning that around.

Old grape vines clambering over a tumbledown shed were the start of Jake Dromgool's wine-growing venture. He's grown a dizzying array of varieties on the volcanic soils outside Kerikeri.

Yu Kali曾在中国一座繁忙城市的商场里卖鞋，如今她和她的女儿在新西兰乡间做起了微型菜苗生意。她们的创业项目--Mama Kali's Farm--就像她们种植的菜苗一样，正在快速成长。

Yu Kali and Yu Jiang's microgreens venture is sprouting almost as fast as the tiny veggies themselves.

Mark Tanner knows what people in New Zealand's largest market are consuming. He's the founder of China Skinny, a market research company based in Shanghai.

Ancient podocarp forest has become a classroom for schoolchildren taking part in a project to link land, river and community

How do you stop birds colliding with New York's skyscrapers and how can New Zealand farmers benefit from birds and other wildlife? These are just some of the questions Dr Sara Kross has been trying to…

Leafy greens will be in short supply in coming weeks after hail blasted crops around Pukekohe, Auckland's main vegetable growing area.

Vulnerable families in Fiji are living on a tin of fish or a packet of biscuits a day as the pandemic continues to bite.

Pacific island countries using the AstraZeneca vaccine should continue with their rollouts, the World Health Organisation says.

A Hawke's Bay farmer caught up in the response to a bovine TB outbreak says they're not getting the support they need to stay afloat.

The rural contracting industry says red tape means they can't make the most of some overseas workers who've been allowed into the country.

Pitcairn Islanders are missing out on important cruise ship revenue but also feel privileged to be isolated from the global pandemic. Audio

First Person - China's new security law for Hong Kong was passed this week putting the city at a precarious juncture. Sally Round looks back at her time as a reporter there in 1997, when the British…

Overcrowding on Tuvalu's main atoll of Funafuti is suspected to be behind high rates of rheumatic heart disease among children living there.

A single use plastic ban and importation levy comes into force in Tuvalu from the beginning of August to help deal with waste in the small remote islands.

From New Zealand you could go half way around the world for the price of a flight to Tuvalu. Audio

An agriculture expert says Fiji's sector has huge potential, but it needs to modernise how it grows sugar cane and branch out into other crops.

Tuvalu remains on high alert for dengue which has killed two children in the past three months.

Tuvalu has received the go ahead to use Green Climate Fund money to reclaim more land as it fights the effects of climate change. Audio

Eclipse-chasers, astronomers and scientists are converging on the small island of Oeno in the Pitcairn Islands group to witness a solar eclipse tomorrow morning.