A team of conservationists, zoologists and veterinary medicine specialists from Justus Liebig University Giessen, in Germany, ...

A new artificial insemination method helps rare Kākāpō parrots breed again, offering hope amid global bird decline.

Is the financially stretched Department of Conservation best to lead the country’s cooperative mission to eradicate pests by ...

Adding feral cats to the Predator Free 2050 target species list would ensure their removal is humane, coordinated and ...

Smokefree 2025 was within reach. Now, it’s a milestone we’re set to miss. As the globe marks World Smokefree Day this ...

The Department of Conservation is currently seeking feedback on its Predator Free 2050 strategy, asking if feral cats should be included in the list.

Only a 40-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland, Waiheke Island receives an avalanche of visitors every summer. But it’s ...

The fence guarding Zealandia was the first of its kind in the world. Twenty-five years on, work has started to replace it.

No herds of special interest exist in New Zealand currently ... “A sanctuary for stoats?” Meager explained that maintaining herd numbers would allow the hunter-led Fiordland Wapiti Foundation ...

Feral cats were one of New Zealand's most ferocious predators ... Monitoring at St James also showed stoat and ferret numbers declined to "very low levels" after the operation, most likely from eating ...

New Zealand’s nature is special and unique but in serious trouble. Each year, approximately 25 million native birds are killed by introduced predators. Introduced possums, rats, stoats, ferrets and ...

The Archey’s frog is one of only three endemic to New Zealand, and is found only in the Coromandel ... will be intensively managed to cull the wild pigs, the rats, the stoats, and the other predators, ...