Environment

There are no other wild populations on the mainland as they're heavily impacted by habitat loss, disease and predation.

But the levels are well within drinking water guidelines, the council says.

Organisers say they don't expect the competition to go global again, but there's plenty of room for things to go awry. Audio

For the past two years, the Upper Hutt community of Katherine Mansfield Drive had been fighting to keep chainsaws away from a stand of beech trees.

Projects that harm the environment will still get the green light despite the latest changes to the fast-track bill, a critic says. Audio

Gisborne District Council has celebrated multiple legal wins against forestry companies, but who is paying?

An old mining shaft has been confirmed as the cause behind turning the Ohinemuri River bright orange yesterday, the Waikato Regional Council says.

Pine trees are an important part of the economy, but planting whole farms with pine trees could have flow-on impacts in regional towns, Federated Farmers says.

The whale was discovered on a beach at Te Kaha and has finally been identified through DNA analysis.

Rivers and lakes could be cleaned up and profits still generated for landowners by converting sheep and beef farms to pine trees, new research says.

More than 100 new weeds have been added to the Department of Conservation's list of environmental threats.