Nicola Toki is the CEO of Forest and Bird and a self-confessed "nature nerd". Each week she talks to Jesse Mulligan about an uncharismatic but lovable member of New Zealand's wildlife community. Get ...

Possums in particular have affected canopy tree species, leading to the death of large areas of trees through defoliation. Possums also eat bird eggs and chicks and large invertebrates such as the ...

A Powelliphanta slithers across the path, a giant snail with a shell up to nine centimetres in diameter. It eats earthworms "like spaghetti," says Parsons. To protect rare species like this ...

A permit is required to hunt on public conservation land. This hunting area is covered by a 'restricted area permit'. Contact the DOC office managing the hunting area. Goat hunting is likely to be ...

Kath Walker and Graeme Elliott, pictured on Antipodes Island with a male wandering albatross, have spent 32 summers and counting charting the populations of birds on subantarctic islands.