Four years into a 20-year plan to conserve and protect their environment for the benefit of native insects, Gordon and Janine Thompson have received a certification from the Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust.
The lights may have gone out for a colony of glow worms in Dunedin, after Dunedin City Council workers began felling exotic conifer trees in Frasers Gully.
A trip to Raoul Island has the hallmarks of a tropical getaway to a Pacific Island paradise. But the reality of most trips to the northernmost New Zealand-controlled territory is a far cry...
Conservationists have been warning of it for years, and on Enderby Island in the Auckland Islands group, 460km south of Bluff, there is stark evidence of a serious problem.
Loppers, gloves, 4WDs and helicopters were part of the high country conservation experience for a group of eight volunteers with the recent annual Department of Conservation Twizel wilding tree...
A threatened species of bird living amid the tussock near Dunedin could influence the way New Zealanders design their wind farms.
A film location scout criticised for damaging a high country wetland in the Nevis Valley area while filming a 4WD advertisement admits he made a mistake, but says he had no idea the bog was a "fragile" ecosystem.
Numbers of the nationally endangered mohua in the Catlins are continuing to stabilise, more than a year on from a poisoning programme to reduce predators.
A clearer understanding of where long-tailed bats roost near Glenorchy has been achieved by the Department of Conservation (Doc) and volunteers, with the aim of protecting New Zealand's only native land mammals from predator invasions.
Losing a chip to a red-billed gull might be frustrating, but you need to look at it as a contribution towards saving a nationally vulnerable species.
They are keeping up their air of mystery but the kiwi at Orokonui Ecosanctuary are believed to be settling in well.
A specialist stoat-sniffing dog sent to Kapiti Island has broken its leg in a fall, hampering efforts to track down the predator in the bird sanctuary.
A Queenstown conservation worker is calling for more than 80 volunteers to help clear invasive wilding conifers in the Ben Lomond forest.
All 26 permanent and 16 temporary staff members of the Department of Conservation (Doc) Wakatipu area office are settling into their new long-awaited Arthurs Point base this week, which has been revamped to New Zealand Green Building Council standards.
The deteriorating condition of rivers such as the Pomahaka in West Otago has driven the Otago Fish and Game Council to take a more proactive approach to ensuring the conservation and recreational values of Otago's waterways are maintained.
Claims that one of the world's rarest birds no longer exists because of cross-breeding have been debunked by University of Canterbury research that has found the black stilt in the upper Waitaki basin is a distinct species.
Spectacular in flight and considered to be as important to Otago's landscape as tussock, New Zealand falcons have captured the interest of Outram man Steve Lawrence for more than two decades.
After 130 years Dunedin residents finally have kiwi in their backyard.
The eight kiwi released at Orokonui Ecosanctuary at the weekend have begun moving around their new home.
Some of coastal Otago's key wildlife projects demonstrate how closely linked tourism is to successful conservation projects, Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson says.
