Conservation

Alison Ballance revisits a 2013 feature on kauri dieback disease and talks to Nick Waipara to find out how the northern kauri forests are coping with the disease in 2021. Audio

Flick Taylor is currently living in a tent on her and husband Sam's plot in Laikipia County in Kenya while the family build a new home. It's a world away from her early upbringing on a farm in rural… Audio

With more than a thousand conservation stories under her waterproof parka, science journalist Alison Ballance is retiring from RNZ's Our Changing World programme.  Audio

The story of a seabird translocation to Mana Island, involving fluffy white-faced storm petrel chicks, artificial burrows and sardine smoothies. Audio

University of Canterbury freshwater biologists are using a joint mātauranga Māori and western conservation science framework for their work translocating species. Audio

Ornithologist and author Ralph Powlesland is intimately acquainted with the weka families on the regenerating Marlborough Sounds farm where he lives. Audio

Jane Va'afusuaga fell in love with Samoa the first time she visited in the late 1980s. She vowed to return one day but never imagined that she would eventually marry a Samoan Matai and end up living… Audio

Last year Tahu Mackenzie was named Otago Person of the Year and Educator of the Year at the Otago Hall of Fame inaugural awards. Tahu is the educator at Dunedin's Orokonui Ecosanctuary. She's also one… Audio, Gallery

Each year Jo Bonner and the team at Coastlands Plant Nursery in Whakatane grow 300,000 spinifex and pingao plants for dune replanting at beaches around the North Island. Audio

Freshwater Hydro-Ecologist Dr Eleanor Gee talks to Kathryn about how the ability to climb ramps helps native fish to navigate tricky waterways. Scientists at Hamilton's NIWA laboratory are observing… Audio, Gallery

After nearly 14 years of planting native bush, a massive former dairy farm is now thriving forest overlooking the Kaipara. Produced by Kadambari Raghukumar.  Video, Audio

Iwi representatives & conservationists journey to Zealandia sanctuary to plant seeds of the mysterious parasitic flowering plant Dactylanthus or flower of the underworld. Audio

There are more tigers in captivity in the United States than there are in the wild in Asia, thanks to Americans' growing appetites for posing for photos with big cats and their cubs. National… Audio, Gallery

It's scallop season and thousands of recreational fishers want dredging stopped. At a recent AGM of the New Zealand Sport Fishing Council and Legasea, delegates voted to promote low impact scallop… Audio

The global pandemic has touched even the lives of people in remote Endeavour Inlet in the Marlborough Sounds.  Video, Audio, Gallery