Only 300 individual birds in New Zealand have any sort of protection from H5N1, which has devastated wild birds and domestic ...

Avian flu has arrived in New Zealand, riding along with a sick skua. Scientists have been worried about this moment for ...

It’s a cloudless Sunday afternoon and the sidelines at Huntly Rugby Club are packed for the junior women’s first league game of the season. This is a family day out for the west side of town—the ...

Winding up to competitions, Te Toki’s teenagers endure pre-dawn alarms, 3.8-kilometre runs around the lake, customised gym routines, and training to finesse paddle skills. On the south-eastern shore ...

Back when most of Central Otago was a superlake, back when the climate was almost tropical, back when three-metre-long crocodilians lazed in the shallows and giant parrots stalked the bush—well, a lot ...

On an amphibious boat off Pākiri Beach just north of Auckland, Jono Ridler looks out to sea. He picks up a physio bungee and silently embarks on a series of stretches. Arms wide, Titanic style. Then ...

The bird with a big mouth. The bird who leads the flock. The bird who announces the day. The bird who sounds the alarm. The dark bird. The rare bird. The noble, silly, insomniac parrot we’re going to ...

In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape Reinga over about nine months. Here, 100 kilometres into her odyssey and deeply unsure about her capacity to finish it, ...

What would the beach be without red-billed gulls? We may be about to find out. Two huge colonies have already gone under and the next biggest, in Kaikōura, is failing fast. In December 2023, ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

The release of Disney’s Moana in te reo was a landmark for Māori language revitalisation. As that rebirth gathers steam, mita, or dialects are returning to the fore. When The Lion King Reo Māori hit ...

The difference between exploring and being lost is the ability to return home. Te Rā tells the story of Māori voyaging and weaving technology, and has finally returned home—for now. It’s a cold winter ...