Solutions are critical in their own way for the challenge that is turning the tide on the loss of nature in New Zealand, writes Marie Brown.

In the first of a two-part series on New Zealand’s ‘vanishing nature’, author Marie Brown explains the country’s biodiversity crisis - and why things are getting worse.

A famous local mountain lion who crawled under a Los Angeles home on Tuesday stayed put, despite humans' best efforts to get him out.

A hunter who has killed dozens of wild animals has been sent death wishes by furious social media users.

In a move more befitting of a feline, a lost pooch has turned up in an elevated position.

A rare kiwi chick that has been recovering at Wellington Zoo for the past six weeks is heading back to the wild.

Thermal imaging could be used to prevent ships striking whales by detecting the heat from their bodies.

Auckland Zoo's new elephant, Anjalee, enjoys a pat while in quarantine on Niue.

Eight-year-old Anjalee is spending 90 days in quarantine on Niue as she waits for her boarding pass to Auckland, where she will eventually live in Auckland Zoo.

Dogs have a 98 per cent reliability rate in sniffing out prostate cancer, according to newly-published research.

I'm not sure where in nature a dog would access bacon or cheese or smoked food or indeed the many grains, including corn, which are included in these treats, writes Wendyl Nissen.

A dominant male chimpanzee that launched a ferocious two-minute attack that killed a female newcomer to Hamilton Zoo is back with his troop.

Tuatara have hatched in the wild in the South Island for possibly the first time in several hundred years, experts say.

A rat plague in the picturesque Hunua Ranges is threatening New Zealand's biggest mainland population of the kokako.

Tuatara have hatched in the wild in the South Island for possibly the first time in several hundred years, experts say.

A female chimpanzee died after a horrific two-minute attack by the dominant male at Hamilton Zoo.

It may have taken five years, but Chester the shelter dog has finally found a home - and become a social media sensation at the same time.

Spiders presented such a great danger to humans during the early evolutionary stages that a fear of the species became part of our DNA.

NZ is home to tens of thousands of endemic plant, animal, insect and marine species. Jamie Morton looks at 10 new finds.

Dog breeders should be subject to comprehensive regulations, writes Kerre McIvor.

Holidaymakers at Papamoa Beach yesterday cleared the water after a 2.5m bronze whaler entered the shallows.

Two bouncy, wriggly beagle puppies will be spending their first Easter as trainee biosecurity detector dogs. Brother and sister Charleston and Roxy are only 10 weeks old but are already two weeks into their Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) training programme.

A small songbird no bigger than a sparrow flies up to 2770km over open ocean in what has been described as one of the "most extraordinary migratory feats on the planet".

Eight years after Knut drew millions of visitors to Berlin Zoo, the polar bear's baby brother has been christened at a zoo in the north-eastern German town of Rostock.

The Government has relented to a campaign to ban animal trials for the second time in a year, this time within the cosmetics industry.

The Government is expected to propose a ban on testing cosmetics on animals this afternoon.

Basic Kiwi ingenuity is helping endangered sea lion pups out of tough spots on one of New Zealand’s most remote islands.