New Zealand’s island biogeography and long isolation have produced a unique assemblage of native birds, reptiles and invertebrates that evolved in the absence of mammalian predators. Since human ...

For decades, introduced animals transformed some of New Zealand’s remote subantarctic islands, where native plants and wildlife had evolved without large grazing mammals or land predators. Sheep were ...

Source: Michal Klajban, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. It sounds like a good conservation strategy: If a native species are being killed by invasive predators, move ...

The population of New Zealand's endangered kākāpō has dramatically increased from 51 to 325 birds, thanks to a fruitful breeding season that produced 90 adorable chicks. This success is bittersweet, ...