New Zealand was once a quiet world ruled almost entirely by birds. For millions of years, the islands had no native land ...

The bird is of cultural significance to the Māori people of New Zealand, and its numbers are starting to increase again.

Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as the nation weighs its environmental responsibilities.

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

Like many student volunteers, the kids in the group Town Belt Kaitiaki look after their neighborhood parks — planting trees, weeding, clearing paths. But they also do something less common: ...