In human years, she wouldn’t quite qualify for a Gold Card, but in kōkako years, Ruahine is a living legend.

Weka can be delightful and entertaining, but their opportunistic appetite for other birds’ eggs and chicks can cop them some controversy.

Large-scale, frequent and effective introduced predator control helped increase kākā density fourfold and improved the sex ratio.

Illustrator Andrew James outlines how the Department of Conservation are planning to respond to this summer’s forecast beech mast.

Tuatara have been around for 220 million years — before Aotearoa New Zealand existed as a landmass. Here are five things you might not know about this icon.

Tuatara owe their survival to rat control. However, researchers have discovered that the toxin that enabled tuatara to survive can also harm them.

A new study has revealed the endangered pāteke (brown teal) on Aotea (Great Barrier Island) is at serious risk of extinction within the next 100 years.

It’s a dark, rainy night in the beech forest. A lemon-sized snail glides silently across the leaf litter, hot on the trail of an unsuspecting earthworm.

Kāhu are messy eaters and have questionable table manners and social skills, but they have become unexpected helpers for Hamish Trolove's possum disposal.

Six rangers and 472 feral cat traps stand between the pukunui (southern NZ dotterel) and oblivion.

The Kea Conservation Trust is urging people carrying out ground-based predator control in kea habitat to take extra precautions to avoid injury or death.

Rowan Nicholson has been there for moments few have witnessed: nocturnal mating of ruru (morepork) and the wide-eyed wonder of newly hatched chicks.

What comes to mind when you think of a gull? Noisy seaside neighbours? Picnic scavengers? How about declining species?

With 33 chicks fledging, 2024 is a record equalling breeding season for northern royal albatross at Taiaroa Head, Otago Peninsula.

You might not know of matuku-hūrepo (Australasian bittern) – with fewer than 1,000 living in New Zealand, they’re rarer than whio or hoiho.