Conservation

The Department of Conservation has not had any input into reports on Transmission Gully motorway's environmental impacts or what to do about them.

A rare penguin that turned up on a Dunedin beach last month is preparing to go back home to Antarctica.

New Zealand's rarest bird looks set for a bumper breeding season this summer with five fledglings already striking out on their own and as many as eight more chicks to follow.

Nearly 1000 fur seals have died along the Kaikōura coastline in the past five months - scientists say it is a result of warmer sea temperatures and depleted fish stocks.

The government is proposing changes to fast-track resource consents in a new bill set to go before Parliament.

The recovery of an injured pūteketeke is fantastic news for the species, says the Department of Conservation (DOC).

Ndale, a 19 year-old male, died a day after being anaesthetised as part of a health check-up.

A new toolkit will provide advice on precautions fisher can take to prevent the birds becoming victim to longline fishing boats.

A sleepy sea lion using your clothes as a pillow is a problem few beachgoers face.

Increasingly warmer seas could see new types of marine mammals beaching on New Zealand's shores, experts say.

The whale got stuck on a sandbar in the shallow estuary at Moncks Bay.

Ahead of a crunch meeting over Wellington's water woes, another area explains its own fix. Audio

Auckland Zoo's Sumatran tiger habitat is closed to the public, after one of its new cubs was injured during a fall.

They but have been monitored attacking nesting colonies of natives birds and are also known to attack newborn lambs and calves, and other vulnerable livestock.

Hundreds of thousands of viewers have watched this year's Royal Cam albatross chick hatch on the Otago Peninsula.

Giant kelp is disappearing from Wellington Harbour. Love Rimurimu is aiming to restore lush underwater kelp forests with an ambitious and collaborative replanting effort. Claire Concannon dives in to…