Endangered species

With a little help from modern transport, Tuku, the kiwi born at Kiwi Birdlife Park last year, will tomorrow be able to "fly for once in her life".

The shooting of a young New Zealand sea lion - a species as threatened as the African elephant or the kakapo - has shocked and dismayed those who work to ensure its survival.

Gerrard Eckhoff, the Central Otago farmer well used to understanding the science of breeding sheep to secure greater numbers and to improve meat and wool quality, has long advocated a similar approach to preserving some endangered species of our wildlife.

Some grand and Otago skinks could be relocated to an island in Lake Wanaka as part of efforts to protect the declining numbers of the western populations of the skinks.

An endangered bird once thought to be extinct has died after being caught on a longline commercial fishing hook in Alaska.

Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley shouldn't be using a new scientific report to tout New Zealand's fisheries as "clean and green", environmental lobbyists say.

New Zealand has renewed pleas at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) for Japan to lift its threat to hunt humpback whales in the Antarctic.

The first tuatara to hatch in the wild on mainland New Zealand in two centuries has been found in Wellington.

Ninety-five New Zealand sea lions basked on Parliament's lawn today as part of a demonstration to highlight that the government was allowing that many of the sea mammals to be killed this year.

Indonesia's tiger catchers have a double job - protecting humans from tigers, and tigers from humans.