More than 350 people from around the world have booked to see the kakapo Sirocco, one of the world's rarest parrots, at the Ulva Island bird sanctuary, Stewart Island, over the next six weeks.
Otago Daily Times cartoonist Garrick Tremain spoke about his work and gave details of his new book, 20 Years of Garrick Tremain at a New Zealand Book Month event at the Dunedin Public Library last night.
Nik Hurring has spent many hours looking after injured and sick kereru. Rebecca Fox talks to the winner of the 2008 Otago Conservation Awards - Coastal.
Dunedin will host the Special Olympics National Summer Games in 2013, a four-day event tipped to bring an estimated $2.5 million to $3 million to the city.
Macraes Flat is well known as the home of New Zealand's critically endangered skinks, but now there is a new claim - that the area has the highest diversity of threatened plants for its size in the country.
Connecting people with conservation work and issues in their area is the aim of this year's Conservation Week, with its theme being Meet the Locals.
To celebrate the week, a range of activities will be held throughout Otago, from planting days to picking up litter.
Dunedin could be one of the first areas to implement the Government's promised SuperGold Card free off-peak public transport initiative for people over the age of 65.
The Clutha District Council has attacked the Otago Regional Council for what it calls a "myopic, one-sided exercise in advocacy" in day one of the hearing into its application to discharge treated wastewater into the Tokomairiro River.
Dunedin Buddhists joined others around the world in a vigil for peace on Saturday, praying for those who have died tragically, are oppressed or starving.
"Disturbing" environmental damage in the Waipahi and Catlins river catchments has left Otago Fish and Game councillors shocked at what farmers can do to their land.