Black labrador puppy Amani will have a tough job keeping up with his foster brothers - cheetah cubs Winspear and Kamau.

Conservation Week has launched today with a proposal for a new conservation park on Great Barrier Island and a pest eradication programme on Rakitu Island in the Hauraki Gulf.

Three apes startled hundreds of visitors to a Christchurch wildlife park yesterday when they escaped from their enclosure.

Ports of Auckland will ask ships to slow down in and out of the harbour to save endangered whales in the Hauraki Gulf.

After enduring a tiresome journey by launch, car, aeroplane and helicopter, JJ the takahe wasted no time establishing the pecking order at her new Tiritiri Matangi home.

Dionne Christian explores how we can help our natural wonderlands for Conservation Week.

A Gisborne man has been jailed for trying to set his dog on police, yelling "sic him" as the animal charged a constable.

News coverage of a New Zealand man who survived stranded on a remote Australian island was the first his Wellington family had heard of him in nearly 20 years.

A group of former All Blacks have beaten a team of Thai ladyboys in an elephant polo match.

They're little, they're fluffy and, for the first time, they're all ours.

A Vietnamese air passenger has been charged with smuggling live tropical fish in his trouser pockets after airport staff noticed water dripping down the man's leg.

A change of heart by Parliament on testing recreational drugs on animals has been hailed as a "great day for beagle puppies".

Bino's back was killing him. He was suffering from scoliosis. He couldn't move his legs, two of them anyway, and his tail just wouldn't swish.

The native kakapo, one of the most endangered species in the world, has been named on a list of the ugliest animals in the world. The reason? Conservation.

An elderly female Sumatran tiger has died at Wellington Zoo, in a "devastating" blow for staff and regular visitors.

The return of sea otters in California's Monterey Bay has caused a remarkable recovery of endangered sea grasses.

I've always classified those horse-drawn carriages in Central Park alongside Venice's gondolas.

Two Dunedin youths have been arrested in relation to the theft and mutilation of a pet lamb in the city last month.

This labrador puppy nicknamed Richard Parker after the tiger in Life of Pi was found swimming for her life in San Francisco Bay.

Clever canines able to sniff out minute traces of peanuts could soon be available to help New Zealand children with severe allergies.

Neighbours of a house where a woman was mauled to death by rottweilers are outraged another big dog is at the address.