A pelican - one of only 20 believed to be in the country - has been found shot dead on the banks of the Waikato River.

Just about everyone agrees that the moves to permit psycho-active substances to be sold if they can be proved to be safe are A Good Thing. One of the few areas for dispute is whether or not they should be tested on animals.

The former wife of a dead conman has been convicted of forging a fake dog lease in an attempt to extort $15,000 from a voluntary animal shelter.

Learning to ride is a dream come true for some children. Joanna Mathers looks at what riding schools in Auckland and beyond offer.

A fly with a water droplet balanced on its head features in an incredible up-close-and-personal series of pictures of bugs in amazingly sharp detail.

In the jungle of Borneo, displaced or orphaned orang-utans are given lessons in survival, writes Ben Fogle.

Snoopy is a survivor. The 4-year-old spaniel-cross spent six hours stranded on a Dunedin cliff ledge in the cold and rain yesterday.

It was a toss-up whether Badger or Huhana was the 100th kiwi raised on Matakohe/Limestone Island in Whangarei Harbour.

A tiny capuchin monkey belonging to Justin Bieber won lifetime residency in Germany on Saturday after the singer'sagents said Bieber would not try to recover his confiscated pet.

Otago commercial fishermen have reacted with anger to a proposal to extend a ban on set-net fishing around the Otago Peninsula to help preserve yellow-eyed penguin colonies.

A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals has returned to Earth after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind.

New research from Oxford University shows the rate of global warming has been lower over the past decade than it was previously.

New Zealand in 2013 has the opportunity to take a bold step and introduce the best animal welfare laws in the world.

Extending a ban on set net fishing around the Otago Peninsula will stem the deaths of one of the rarest penguin species in the world

Auckland Airport biosecurity staff have avoided a nasty nipping after finding five live crabs in a Vietnamese passenger's luggage.

Dunedin Department of Conservation staff helped a wayward windfarer back on its flight path yesterday.

After having had each front toe amputated, could a 12-year-old takahe called Maroro resume a normal lifestyle? The answer is a resounding yes.

Screams coming from Wairarapa home as fire tore through it turned out to be two dogs trapped in the blaze.

A North Canterbury forest lifestyle block owner facing animal welfare charges has now been charged with breaching a protection order and bashing 13 chickens to death.

Tallies from the annual Great Easter Bunny Hunt in Central Otago must have embarrassed the Otago Regional Council, as they revealed the ineffectiveness of its pest management, submitters said this week.

A Wairarapa man got more than he bargained for when he took his two dogs walking at Lake Domain.

The heli-hunting season on Department of Conservation land ends in late July and it is quite likely to be the last.

Plans to completely eradicate Stewart Island of pests have been unveiled by anti-cat crusader Gareth Morgan.

Bird catchers will be out in the Auckland suburb of Glendowie today after the runaway kokako was discovered a fortnight ago.