When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...

Under the new leadership, BirdCare Aotearoa is actively pursuing high-impact grants and collaborative conservation ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

Innovative advances in DNA sequencing are making it possible to revive extinct bird species like the dodo, great auk, ...

Spartina traps silt and sand, impacting the open mudflats needed by many migratory protected bird species such as the ...

F inding fossils of any species is an exciting discovery for science, but some are a little bit more special than others. In ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

Using mitogenome data from nearly all living and recently extinct New Zealand mainland bird species, researchers discovered many species associated with grass and shrubland, like pīhoihoi, New Zealand ...

A risk assessment by the Department of Conservation looked at 1145 species of birds, bats, lizards, and frogs, insects and plants and found almost a third would be highly vulnerable to climate change ...

In response to human-induced environmental changes, New Zealand’s stoneflies have changed color. It is the clearest evidence of human activity […] ...

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...