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A whale that washed up last week around 40km north of Muriwai beach on Auckland's west coast will be left to rot, the Department of Conservation says.

Hamilton Zoo have had an early Christmas present this year - four meerkats from Auckland Zoo.

Lifeguards have closed Mt Maunganui beach after a surfer's close encounter with a shark.

An elephant handler was sacked after being told that his charge, Jumbo, was 'lost', only to find she had been given away.

The family who adopted Trooper - the puppy that was rescued after being found outside the Gate Pa shops, in Tauranga, with its ears chopped off - say he is settling in to his new home very well.

Warm early summer seas around northern NZ are attracting increasing numbers of sharks.

In the end it wasn't very difficult at all. I simply went out to lunch, drank a few glasses of very good champagne and did it.