Conservation

Urgent action is needed to develop new approaches and improve tools to protect New Zealand's environment and economy from pests as some older approaches to pest management become ''obsolete'', a new Royal Society of New Zealand report says.

Predator-free New Zealand is a wild dream gaining a popular voice. But what animals would we get rid of. And how? First, however, we have a looming rat and stoat plague with which to contend, writes Bruce Munro.

Predator-free is a fraught phrase with some hidden fish-hooks.

Urgent interim measures need to be taken to protect the endangered New Zealand sea lion population given the serious rate of decline in pup numbers in the Auckland Islands, scientists and conservationists say.

A new vision for conservation hopes to break down some of the old divisions, writes Tom McKinlay.

The great work of people who go the extra mile for conservation will be recognised through the Otago Conservation Awards.

Otago Peninsula, with all its flora and fauna, is very special to Moira Parker. Rebecca Fox asks this year's winner of the Coastal Otago Conservation Award about her passion for conservation work.

A pair of flightless birds flew south yesterday, to Orokonui Ecosanctuary near Dunedin, where they became instant media stars.

Volunteers of all ages took to the track at Lake Hayes to extend the existing Lake Hayes Project Gold site on a clear and crisp morning in late April.

A small population of robins in the Silver Peaks survived a 1080 drop and even flourished due to the poison killing its predators, a University of Otago study has found.

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.

The Mohua Charitable Trust has donated $11,000 to a Wanaka-based programme to save the mohua, a rare native bird, in the Mt Aspiring National Park.