John Gibb

Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage says a "fantastic" encounter with the country's rarest kiwi species yesterday has highlighted the value of the Orokonui Ecosanctuary's kiwi creche.

Carrying placards and singing waiata, about 100 protesters marched up Princes St, Dunedin, yesterday to press home the message ''Hands Off Our Tamariki''.

Imagine if some stuffed or bony creatures from the Otago Museum's Animal Attic escaped and ended up in Highgate.

A new mini-exhibition at the Otago Museum's Tuhura Tropical Forest highlights the "power of plants", museum science communicator Alice Morrison says.

Firefighters are still looking for hot spots in a ceiling space after battling a small fire in a wall and ceiling in a house at the Dunedin suburb of Musselburgh this morning.