From wild nests to the Auckland Zoo, the rarest bird in New Zealand just wrapped up its breeding season — and it was a ...

The population of New Zealand's treasured kākāpō has now reached 252, the highest number of the endangered birds seen in almost 50 years, the country's Department of Conservation announced Tuesday.

The jawbone of a nearly 50-foot sperm whale that washed ashore in New Zealand's southernmost region has been removed. While the act is illegal, it's also considered disrespectful to the Māori people.

New Zealand’s Department of Conservation oversees about 30 percent of the country’s land, designated as protected areas under various headings including national parks, ...

New Zealand is a whale-stranding hotspot, with more than 5,000 episodes recorded since 1840, according to the Department of Conservation. The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on ...

The New Zealand Department of Conservation is charged with making sure these critically endangered birds do not become extinct. Up until last year, ...

New Zealand’s annual Bird of the Year competition has been won by the country’s only land mammal: the pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat.

Lisa Flanagan / New Zealand Department of Conservation via AP The video was taken at a facility on the South Island's West Coast, where conservation rangers ...

New Zealand Department of Conservation/AFP via Getty Images. All beaked whales have different stomach systems and researchers don’t know how the spade-toothed kind processes its food.

New Zealand has recorded more than 5,000 whale strandings since 1840. The largest pilot whale stranding was of an estimated 1,000 whales at the Chatham Islands in 1918, according to the Department ...