Study Reveals Ancient Flightless Birds Helped Spreading Colorful Native Fungi, Highlights Ecological Balance It is a finding that sounds like something out of a scientific whodunit. Still, it's real: ...

A waitlist of people wanting to be volunteers? In this economy? It sounds like a movie script, perhaps even a fairy tale.

Kairangahau suggests these fungi relied on moa for spore dispersal, meaning their extinction may be disrupting both fungal spread and Aotearoa’s native ... ranging from small birds under 50kg ...

One of the best walks in the Manawatu, and part of the longer Manawatu Gorge Track, this is a medium 90-minute walk. "Taken ...

There were 3,100 new homes consented in New Zealand in November 2024 ... The Tui payload, named after the native bird, was built by a team of scientists from the NZDF’s Defence Science ...

which is common in small, isolated populations. For example, conservationists working to safeguard New Zealand’s South Island robins (Petroica australis) moved female birds between isolated islands.

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

“Anna Gibbs is a local artist of extraordinary calibre. Her ability to capture the spirit of New Zealand’s native birds in such vivid detail is truly remarkable,” says Wright-Slow.

Conservation in New Zealand depends on the goodwill and enthusiasm of passionate people who walk our beaches doing shore bird surveys, monitoring bittern calls in wetlands and tramping our ...

The Philippine government, through the Department of Agriculture (DA), has imposed a ban on the importation of domestic and wild birds from New Zealand amid an outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu ...