"Shaka can be a highly valuable and specialized conservation asset." Highly trained dog primed to play a key role in sniffing ...

Artificial intelligence is making conservation efforts faster and easier in the fight for total pest eradication, with new ...

Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis has joined the government voices urging more mining, but the opposition says it is a ...

Resources Minister Shane Jones wants to have a conversation about mining on conservation land — and he thinks he’s found a ...

There are now 26 places around the North Island with kōkako populations. Photo: © David Cook Wildlife Photography (CC BY-NC 2 ...

The Waiau Toa / Clarence weed control programme is a collaborative project involving LINZ, Boffa Miskell, ECan, the Department of Conservation, Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura, the Marlborough District Council ...

The question of whether cats are a menace for birdlife is under debate again, so just how bad for biodiversity are our ...

An introduced species, stoats are the number one killer of many of New Zealand’s endangered native species. “We have a team of hardworking DOC rangers, Southern Lakes Sanctuary staff and volunteers ...

A badger appearing to admire a Banksy-style graffiti version of itself has won the Natural History Museum's 2024 Wildlife ...

Instead, they hop, flit, and nest on the ground, making them easy prey for rats and stoats. The stakes are high, as five out of seven wren species in New Zealand have already gone extinct.

A woman on a walk in the Puketi Omahuta forest in Northland found a kiwi dead inside of a Department of Conservation pest trap.