Waikato, Coromandel & Taupo

A sports memorabilia collecting compulsion put forward to the public. Audio

Ecologist Geoff Park examines the impact of European agriculture on the Hauraki Plains country, once the site of the richest pre-colonial Maori culture. It's also where the country's future landscape… Audio

Miranda Shorebird Centre manager Keith Woodley is an expert on migratory Arctic waders and New Zealand's resident shorebirds Audio

Historian Mark Derby and documentary painter Bob Kerr collaborate to remember the 1912 Waihi miners' strike in words and images in a book called Waiheathens. Audio

The best places to spend the summer in New Zealand. Audio

Kakepuku is a steep, distinctive mountain to the south west of Te Awamutu in Waikato. Seventeen years ago local farmers started pest control work on its 200 hectares. Now the bush has regenerated, and… Audio

A Waikato University 'large river' research project is focusing on life in New Zealand's longest river Audio

Lake Taupo lies in the heart of the Taupo Volcanic zone, a large and highly active area extending from Mount Ruapehu, south of the lake to beyond White Island, off the eastern coast of New Zealand… Audio

We take our last look at a native bird today by travelling to Turangi in the central North Island. Audio

Actor and Playwright Jamie McCaskill no Ngati Tamatera takes Justine Murray on a tikitour of his hometown Thames and recalls some of the purakau (stories), the landscape and history of the area. Audio

The main road into Thames has split, revealing an important part of the area's gold mining history. Part of a pump that was built in 1888 to drain the town's richest gold mines can now be seen through… Audio

Once a thriving gold mining town, Kuaotunu is a beautiful coastal village located 15kms north of Whitianga on the Coromandel Penninsula. Audio

New Zealand's only narrow-guage mountain railway, the Driving Creek Railway near Coromandel Town. Audio

Raglan Area School has a surfing academy which attracts some of the country's top young surfers. Audio

A keen surfer, Aaron Kerepopa began carving snapped surfboards and his work developed from there. Now one of his works can fetch thousands of dollars and he is a full time artist. Audio

13 February 1988 is a day of thanksgiving and celebration for the return of Māori land. Twenty-five hectares by the Raglan harbour was taken by the Crown for defence purposes during the Second World… Audio

Raglan Golf Course - Raglan land confiscated during the last World War for an aerodrome, disputed over the past five years, has been the subject of an appeal in which the High Court has validated the… Audio

Andrew McRae visits Hamilton Zoo. Audio

With less than 1% of its natural vegetation remaining, Hamilton city is working hard to restore urban biodiversity Audio