Introduced over 150 years ago as the basis for a fur trade, the Australian brush-tail possum has instead become an ecological plague, chomping its way through millions of tonnes of forest foliage a ...

This is an interesting and varied tramp only an hour’s drive north of Kaikoura, starting 12 km inland from the main highway. The Isolated Hill Scenic Reserve in the Seaward Kaikouras has some dramatic ...

For all their showiness, tree ferns are extraordinary survivors. They hold their secrets close—but now, scientists are finding new ways to unfurl them. In an underground carpark at the University of ...

On the cover of issue 4 of New Zealand Geographic is a close up of an orange roughy, eyeballing photographer Kim Westerskov from inside a trawl net. It was dragged up from the rolling shoulder of a ...

As a preschooler in Gloriavale Christian Community, near Greymouth, Theophila Pratt would hold picture books up to the light so she could see the words and illustrations that had been carefully whited ...

Wairūrū Marae is across the road from the beach, so if anyone looks out of the windows of the hall, they’ll see Waiau Bay sparkling through the waharoa, the gateway, and the forest-covered hills ...

The harlequin gecko does many things that seem high risk. It stays stock still whenever it’s cold. It lives in extreme slow motion. Somehow, it’s managed to survive on predator-ridden Rakiura/Stewart ...

Plantation forests take up about seven per cent of New Zealand’s land area, mostly in the North Island. Now, researchers have mapped these forests using a combination of airborne laser scanning and ...

Three pot plants, a barbecue and four bikes—we load up Toyota’s fully electric car for a classic southern summer roadie. After spending my Christmas holiday with Toyota’s newish bZ4X, and driving ...

Nine years ago the people of Tāneatua saw that their tamariki were hungry, and bored. The people had no idea how to garden. They made a garden anyway.

Royal spoonbills are thriving in New Zealand, with birdwatchers spotting their extravagant head feathers in more and more estuaries and lagoons. The population is now growing at a rate of 10 per cent ...

Male and female dusky pipefish look exactly the same in all but one aspect—males have a pouch for incubating eggs when they get pregnant. But it’s hard to spot, says Coley Tosto, author of a new study ...