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Predator-free by 2050? High-tech hopes for New Zealand’s big conservation dream

Monica Evans 13 Jun 2019

How climate change could throw Māori culture off-balance

Ashley Stumvoll 23 May 2019

Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds

Hannah Thomasy 25 Apr 2019

The sounds of a rare New Zealand bird reintroduced to its native habitat

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2019

How do you assess if a reintroduced species is thriving? Listen for it

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 8 Feb 2019
Puke Tīmoti helps local rangatahi (young people) make connections between cultural knowledge and science through the Te Whare o Rehua forest academy program. Image courtesy of Tūhoe Tuawhenua Trust.

Māori community reconnects youth with their ancestral forests

Monica Evans 26 Dec 2018
A kererū (native woodpigeon, Hemiphaga novaeseelandiae). The birds are culturally and ecologically important for Tūhoe. Image by Bernard Spragg. NZ via Flickr.

What makes a forest healthy? Māori knowledge has some answers.

Monica Evans 21 Dec 2018
Piupiu ferns (families Blechnaceae and Thelypteridaceae) on the forest floor. Image by Monica Evans for Mongabay.

A Māori community leans on tradition to restore its forest

Monica Evans 17 Dec 2018

New Zealand penguins make ‘crazy’ 7,000-km round trip for food

Mongabay.com 3 Sep 2018

Seabird secrets revealed by bioacoustics in New Zealand

Mike Gaworecki 1 May 2018

Webs under water: The really bizarre lives of intertidal spiders

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Feb 2018

The world’s newest great ape, revealed a month ago, is already nearly extinct: IUCN

Basten Gokkon 7 Dec 2017

Meet the new giant sunfish that has evaded scientists for centuries

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2017

Underwater cameras let scientists dive beneath the surface with dolphins

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jun 2017

Two new species of glowing spook fish discovered

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2016

Baby boom for New Zealand’s extremely rare giant parrot

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Apr 2016
Tourists can spread invasive species on unwashed fishing kits. Photo courtesy of Paula Rosewarn.

Invasive species hop on tourists worldwide

Amy McDermott 20 Nov 2015

Population of Maui’s dolphins slips below 50

Rebecca Kessler 5 Jun 2015

World on course to lose 1 in 6 species to climate change – South America, Australia, New Zealand face even more extinctions

Glenn Scherer 4 May 2015

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

How do we save the world’s vanishing old-growth forests?

Jeremy Hance 26 Aug 2014

Long lives, big impacts: human life expectancy linked to extinctions

Dominic Rowland 15 Apr 2014

Blame humans: new research proves people killed off New Zealand’s giant birds

Jeremy Hance 17 Mar 2014

Environmental groups: top secret Pacific trade agreement to sacrifice wildlife, environment

Jeremy Hance 16 Jan 2014

Plan to preserve the world’s ‘last ocean’ killed by Russia

Jeremy Hance 16 Jul 2013

Low carbon prices may spur deforestation

Mongabay.com 23 Apr 2013

Saviors or villains: controversy erupts as New Zealand plans to drop poison over Critically Endangered frog habitat

Jeremy Hance 10 Apr 2013

Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack of ambition

Analysis Jeremy Hance 9 Dec 2012

Whale only known from bones washes up on beach in New Zealand

Jeremy Hance 5 Nov 2012

Penguins face a slippery future

Jeremy Hance 26 Sep 2012

Forget-me-not: two new flowers discovered in New Zealand gravely endangered

Jeremy Hance 23 Aug 2012

Navy discovers 10,000-sq mile patch of floating rock in South Pacific (photos)

Mongabay.com 11 Aug 2012

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