Queenstown, even with its ice and snow, has proved irresistible for at least one Australian import spotted during the seasonal surge of non-native visitors arriving in the resort.

Auckland Airport biosecurity staff have avoided a nasty nipping after finding five live crabs in a Vietnamese passenger's luggage.

Each year more and more imported pork makes its way into the food chain - writes Dita De Boni - mostly through our consumption of cheap processed meat such as luncheon sausage and cheerios.

The area dedicated to marine reserves has grown by half, with five new reserves for the West Coast.

At a secret location just north of Auckland, an experiment has started which might alter the face of New Zealand's $12 billion dairy industry.

An attempt by an airline passenger to bring two crates of fresh mangoes into NZ could have had dire consequences if the fruit reached our orchards, says border security.

A snake which made its way into New Zealand from Vanuatu has been intercepted at a Manukau scrap yard.

They may be fluffy and cute but Western Bay residents are being warned wallabies are not pets.

Kiwifruit growers are hoping the vine-killing disease Psa will soon be declared an "adverse event".

An Australian ship detained at Wellington's port this week was found to be "crawling with beetles" that had the potential to harm local insect species.

Brian Rudman askes: "Have we really become such a brutal society that an esoteric scientific debate has to be argued with the threat of sledge hammers and dawn raids?"

As valuable to marine life as it is prized by humans, the Hauraki Gulf is in decline. Though solutions seem as elusive as the gulf's fish stocks, a groundswell is building for collaboration.

Thirteen plants have been banned in New Zealand after they were listed as invasive species.