Today is Matariki - Te Mātahi o te Tau, the Māori New Year - and this year’s theme is Matariki herenga waka - For Everyone . The phrase is...

In our current world many traditional holidays have been grasped by consumerism and turned into something that can make money for some and t...

Sir David turned 100 on 8 May 2026 in the UK. The centenary celebrations have been huge: BBC specials, a Royal Albert Hall event, tree plan...

ANZAC Day has held a place in my heart for as long as I can remember. This morning, standing at Dawn Service with my husband in the cold an...

Alison Ballance spends a week on Whenua Hou/Codfish Island, one of three kākāpō breeding islands. She follows rangers from DOC’s Kākāpō Recovery Programme as they go about their daily and nightly nest...

When the kākāpō live nest cam goes down for the weekend these are the kind of things that happen... poor unsuspecting  kākāpō fans who foll...

While it's fitting that 'Pō Atarau' was used in a story of intergalactic friend-making, Erima Maewa Kaihau's name became "detached" from the song, a Wellington academic says.

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The backpacks contained transmitters that weighed 0.5 of a gram.

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For months, everything important happened in a carefully engineered depression in the ground. The crater. Feeds happened there. Slee...

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Yesterday, in the gap that is currently almost constantly filled by a flightless parrot sitting quietly in a hollow under a tree raising...

DOC’s Kākāpō Recovery Programme says that the 2026 kākāpō breeding season is officially the biggest on record, and that all chicks have now hatched. At least 256 eggs were laid in 80 nests, of which a...

The Forest Must Say Yes... You might think that once everything is in place; ·          The male booming ( I just explained it ) ·...

Where were we? Because, I don't know about you, but I was distracted.. by this ...

It started, as these things often do, with a completely reasonable comment from Kākāpō Live Nest Cam : @jorosiebuffie “You know what woul...

In the last post, Rakiura stood up, hesitated for a moment… and then disappeared off to the left of the screen. If you’ve been watching the ...

Which brings us back to the questions that many new viewers ask when the nest suddenly becomes empty. What does she eat? How long will...

Actually, before we talk more about why she’s raising the kids alone, it’s probably time to properly introduce the bird at the centre of th...

Somewhere on a remote predator-free island in southern New Zealand, inside a hollow at the base of a big rātā tree, a large green parrot i...

Kia ora Conservation Minister, The Honourable Tama Potaka,The Denniston Plateau is a 'lost world’ landscape of vast sandstone pavements, fragile wetlands, and rare ecosystems. This remarkable West Coa...