One spring, Annette Lees was given a bat monitor for her birthday—a black and olive plastic gadget with knobs for adjusting volume and frequency and a speaker to announce when a bat was nearby. It is ...

Get out of the city this summer and you’re bound to glimpse a kāhu. The powerful, clever native hawks are revered by those ...

For all those who read my first article laying out the circumstances for New Zealand Geographic, thank you. Some 500 people took out new subscriptions, others renewed. Many also offered advice, which ...

For all those who have responded by subscribing for grandchildren or overseas relatives or to repay long and embarrassing debts, thank you. Thank you also for those who chose to donate instead, or ...

I'd like to start by thanking everyone who has responded to our We Need Your Help appeal. On Thursday we ticked over 1000 new subscriptions, putting us just 1000 short of our goal. Hundreds of readers ...

Here we are—a nation of parents, grandparents and children all in the same boat, together at home. He waka eke noa. Every day of the lock-down we will post a story or video and set of activities that ...

In the last century illegal whisky production in Southland’s Hokonui Hills was a subject of police investigations. Today that shady past is a cause for celebration. The legend of Hokonui leads back to ...

Most manta encounters take place in the area north of Te Hauturu-o-Toi/Little Barrier Island, but their ways are still a mystery, says Lydia Green, who coordinates a database of public manta ray ...

One of the rarest ecologies in the world is hiding in plain sight, in the centre of the most central suburb of the largest city in New Zealand. Of more than 5000 hectares of rock forest that once ...

Don’t call them swamps. Bogs soak up and store more carbon than forests do, but when they’re drained and used for agriculture, that immense amount of carbon is slowly released. The entrance to one of ...

What would the beach be without red-billed gulls? We may be about to find out. Two huge colonies have already gone under and the next biggest, in Kaikōura, is failing fast. In December 2023, ...

The planting of Russell lupins as sheep feed in the Canterbury high country is triggering a clash between farming and conservation values. In early summer, photographers jostle for space on the ...