A near-perfectly preserved 5-meter (16-foot) male was found washed up on a South Island beach in July. It was the first ...

Now, a new population of Gollum galaxias — named after Gollum from “The Lord of the Rings” — has been found thriving in the ...

After heavy rainfall over Easter weekend, a bridge on the Hooker Valley Track, one of New Zealand’s most popular tourist ...

The practice is no longer used by New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. It was Whitaker’s markings on Antoinette and Brucie-Baby – named after Whitaker and fellow conservationist Bruce ...

A mountain in New Zealand will now have the rights of a human being under legislation to be passed by parliament. Taranaki ...

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The Marlborough South area will move from a prohibited to a restricted fire season, which means all outdoor fires need a ...

So much so that in 2016, almost 40,000 Kiwis banded together to buy the beach from a private entity for more than $2 million and donated it to New Zealand's Department of Conservation. Kayak or ...

New Zealand is a whale-stranding hotspot, with more than 5,000 episodes recorded since 1840, according to the Department of Conservation. The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on ...

Photo by the New Zealand Department of Conservation “You might even say they’re ‘precious’,” Hoffmann said. This is the first record of Gollums in the stream, according to the release.