Proposed changes include streamlining and centralising conservation land management, and a review of Section 4 of the Conservation Act.

There was a time when I would go to absurd lengths to distract attention away from signs that pointed towards walking tracks, especially those that indicated an upward trajectory. A few decades later, ...

Tongariro Fire: Mayor has just returned from flight over fire ground. Video / Supplied / Chris Hooker Firefighting has been suspended overnight on the Tongariro fire, with crews on duty to monitor the ...

The latest news and top stories on Jeffrey Shen Wang-ngai, a prominent Hong Kong amateur golfer. He is a key member of the Hong Kong men's golf team, selected to compete in the upcoming National Games ...

Ngāi Tahu has condemned the Government’s new Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Amendment Act, calling it a betrayal of Māori rights and a failure of Crown integrity.

According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, as of 7 a.m. on October 20, the eye of Storm No. 12 (international name Fengshen) was located about 490 kilometers northeast of ...

Former prime minister Jim Bolger is being remembered for the pivotal role he played in the relationship between the Crown and Māori. Bolger died yesterday at the age of 90. He led the National Party, ...

A Texas biotech firm is forging ahead with plans to bring the South Island giant moa back from extinction. The Colossal Bioscience team is working on the project alongside Ngai Tahu researchers. Chief ...

Courtesy of Colossal Biosciences via AP Filmmaker Peter Jackson, left, and Colossal CEO Ben Lamm hold up bones from Jackson’s collection of extinct moa bones in Wellington, New Zealand, 2024.

WASHINGTON — Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like bird has led ...

A project to revive the giant moa, a large bird that went extinct in 15th-century New Zealand, has begun. According to reports from The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph on the 11th (local time), ...