New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

For 50 years, experts thought it had gone the way of the dodo. But in 1948 a tiny population of flightless takahē was ...

Northland's largest wetland has suffered significant damage to an area the size of 54 rugby fields after a landowner allowed ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Otago Fish and Game is continuing to monitor wetlands and estuaries near the Waikouaiti wastewater treatment plant, where ...

Otago Fish & Game said it was the first known major outbreak of the bacterial disease in the region.

Moa—large, flightless, ostrich-like birds—once roamed around New Zealand. But humans hunted ... invaders and help them absorb nutrients and water. Many fungi rely on animals to spread and ...

This 2022 photo from the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society shows pūteketekes at Lake ... [+] Ellesmere, south of Christchurch in New Zealand. Following John Oliver’s successful push to ...

The kea has overcome vote-rigging and online trolling to be named New Zealand's Bird of the Year after two weeks of heated campaigning. While last month's New Zealand election means Jacinda Arden ...