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

Tall, dark and lonely, formed from a mountain peak drowned by the sea, D’Urville Island is a rugged sentinel between Nelson’s Tasman Bay and the gentle filigree of the Marlborough Sounds. Māori called ...

At Manukau Heads, the current swirls in an eddy that Norman named “the Little Blowhole”. Across the harbour are the forested Waitākere Ranges, and the tiny settlement of Little Huia, which Norman and ...

Sixteen years ago, Richard Robinson met a Polish woman, Ania Matuszczak, diving at the Poor Knights. Now, the couple live in Auckland, and have three kids—from left, Nina, Eva and Ted. “For us they’re ...

Craig Mckenzie was surprised that New Zealand Geographic didn’t pick this photograph as part of our 2017 feature on kākāriki karaka, orange-fronted parakeets (‘Last Chance to See’, Issue 147). The ...

At best, our recycling system is deeply inefficient. Some argue it’s also a deliberate deception—an industry ploy to stop consumers thinking too hard about buying stuff in the first place. But one ...

They’ve been here 300 million years. They grow on rock, or in deserts, or underwater, or on dead animals—and they can survive for centuries. In short, mosses are super cool. Mosses truly level up when ...

Laura Ryan was studying the visual systems of fish when a spate of shark attacks at her favourite Perth surf spot got her thinking—why do these apex predators confuse tasteless humans with delicious ...

Cook Strait was Adam Walker’s sixth marathon swim, and a quarter of the way in, he was struggling. The water was much colder than during his previous swims, the choppy waves were making him seasick, ...

Most journalists I know feed their interview recordings to an AI called Otter, then go through each transcript word-for-word, listening to the tape as they read, to pick up mistakes. Otter is far from ...

Eighty years ago, during World War II, hundreds of Polish children found safe harbour in Pahiatua. In October, the surviving children, now in their 80s and 90s, gathered to honour their lives here—and ...