A mysterious new Ghost Shark species is lurking in the deepest and darkest waters of the ocean in a forgotten part of the ...

A massive fire is ripping through a protected wetland in New Zealand, threatening its delicate ecosystem and the rare species that live there – some found nowhere else on Earth. The blaze at the ...

Photo / Jacob Ball The Department of Conservation has rejected criticism of its call for private and philanthropic funding to ...

A toxic plant, which can temporarily cause blindness and is threatening to take over areas of New Zealand’s coast, has been ...

Despite its popularity, the yellow-eyed penguin faces threats from predators and climate change, leading to a fall in its ...

New Zealand’s native stoneflies have changed colour in response ... “In natural forested regions, a native species has ...

Fishing industry body Seafood New Zealand is delighted that fishers working in Aotearoa’s jack mackerel 7 fishery (JMA7) have managed to achieve a whole year of no accidental captures of protected ...

It comes after successful tests conducted by Germany’s Technische Universitat Braunschweig and backed by New Zealand’s Cawthron Institute ...

Fishers working in Aotearoa's jack mackerel 7 fishery record a whole year of no accidental captures of protected species ...

Among the invasive species intercepted were Kikihia angusta, a cicada from New Zealand; Adetaptera ovatula and Zorion ...

Jack mackerel is a significant species for New Zealand’s commercial fishing sector, worth over $66 million in export revenue, and area 7 is the largest of the jack mackerel fisheries we have.