When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...

The Department of Conservation is defending its trapping methods after images of a dead kiwi in a pest trap raised questions ...

The Department of Conservation is defending its trapping methods after images of a dead kiwi in a pest trap raised questions ...

Artificial intelligence is making conservation efforts faster and easier in the fight for total pest eradication, with new traps able to tell predator from protected species.

From apes to zebras, there's probably dozens of animals that readily pop into your mind. But, have you ever tried to see how ...

Birds, it turns out ... Keas, alpine parrots from New Zealand’s South Island, are known for their curiosity, a hallmark of intelligence. Here at a research aviary in Austria, four keas (one ...

These are the cruelties that have maimed and killed New Zealand’s protected birds - including a kea - this summer. The Department of Conservation (DoC) lifted the lid on the “horrific ...

An adult rifleman—New Zealand’s smallest bird—weighs a mere six to seven grams ... More than 700 were weka feathers, and the rest were from kiwi, kakapo, kea and pigeons. This nest-feathering habit ...

New University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research shows Aotearoa has been increasingly accepting new bird species from around the world since the start of the Ice Age, offering clues into future ...

A count that year found the total New Zealand population of these rare birds had grown to 500. With these two populations reaching capacity, the Department of Conservation (DOC) announced on ...