Conservation

Since kororā were found dead on Waiheke Island and others severely malnourished this moulting season, there is growing concern for the fate of little penguins. Audio

The remains of a pod of 45 dolphins euthanised in Hawke's Bay will be studied to try to learn more about their stranding.

A pod of 40 false killer whales and bottlenose dolphins have been euthanised after becoming stranded again on a reef near Mahia.

A penguin is getting fattened up at its new temporary home after travelling thousands of kilometres to Aotearoa.

Facial recognition software is being used to track turtle movements in the Cook Islands.

A dedicated group of conservationists are spending their nights rescuing the Westland petrel from a stretch of State Highway 6 on the West Coast. Audio

Rachel Yerbury-Wilson says despite officials' warnings, she would do it again.

Freshwater anglers are being asked to keep an eye out for pest species after a grass carp was caught in an Otago lake.

Four-wheel-drive enthusiasts are being urged to stick to formed roads and take care when driving after several popular historic Queenstown areas were damaged.

A Department of Conservation ranger is heartbroken people are flouting the rules by driving their cars at the Waikanae estuary scientific reserve.

A lucky female tawaki/Fiordland crested penguin has been returned to the wild off the West Coast this week after a scrape with danger

Swiss pair have bikes confiscated and fined after tearing through one of New Zealand's 'sacred landscapes'.

Microscopic algae lindavia and didymo have been found in the national park's lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa, and in Lake Tennyson.

A gull found stuck in a George St grate may have exposed a design flaw in Dunedin's infrastructure.

A criminal syndicate that planned to illegally export hundreds of native lizards from Australia to Hong Kong has been "dismantled", authorities say.

Suspected case of H5N1 in Antractica after disease tears path of devastation through South America.