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.

The planned release of vast numbers of imported dung beetles could spread nasty gut diseases, Auckland's top public health doctor has warned.

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.

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.

The controversial compulsory electronic tagging for all cattle finally goes live this weekend.