Conservation

Should we intervene to prevent hybridisation between an endangered species and its common relative? In this week's summer science episode, two students from the Department of Science Communication at…

A Department of Conservation ranger is heartbroken people are flouting the rules by driving their cars at the Waikanae estuary scientific reserve.

A lucky female tawaki/Fiordland crested penguin has been returned to the wild off the West Coast this week after a scrape with danger

Swiss pair have bikes confiscated and fined after tearing through one of New Zealand's 'sacred landscapes'.

Microscopic algae lindavia and didymo have been found in the national park's lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa, and in Lake Tennyson.

A gull found stuck in a George St grate may have exposed a design flaw in Dunedin's infrastructure.

A criminal syndicate that planned to illegally export hundreds of native lizards from Australia to Hong Kong has been "dismantled", authorities say.

Suspected case of H5N1 in Antractica after disease tears path of devastation through South America.

The Hochstetter's frog is suffering through a dry summer and could disappear over the next several decades.

Greater Wellington wants government funding for a sanctuary on 3000 hectares of native bush.

Kākā numbers are skyrocketing in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington thanks to conservation efforts. The summer science series continues with a walk through Zealandia to find out why you shouldn't feed…

The summer science fun continues with an episode from RNZ podcast Voices. Meet Gaia Dell'Arriccia, a scientist originally from the south of France who studies the seabirds that live around Auckland's…

There are only around 40 individual tara iti left and a handful of breeding pairs.

Two scientists are camped out on a remote island far south of New Zealand on the hunt for what's killing off the native albatrosses that breed there.

Critically threatened species are among those killed around the country over the past three years.

The discovery of two dead wallabies on Northland roadsides has set alarm bells ringing among the region's biosecurity experts.