A rare NZ falcon - the bird on the $20 note - has been shot dead at Paraparaumu.

Fishermen looking to tag bronze whaler sharks instead came upon three great whites.

Conservation firm Goodnature is working towards a pest-free country by 2030.

COMMENT: NZ is unlikely to be pest-free by 2050 but rewarding hunters would help.

Barry Head was still grinning hours after helping rescue a stranded pygmy sperm whale.

The New Zealand sea lion - one of just 10,000 remaining - bled to death in the Catlins.

The offensive slogan was one of many to spark a complaint against the company.

Five findings from a new independent stocktake of the state of our lakes and rivers.

Broadcaster Alison Ballance discusses her new book on New Zealand's great white sharks.

A man was winched off the side of Mt Ngauruhoe after he was "skittled" by a rock.

Lake Waikaremoana was a top summer stop-off this season. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Six inmates were awarded certificates after completing courses at Auckland Prison today.

Two pods of the marine animals were spotted this morning including a mother and her calf

Australian man who spent four days up a kauri denied NZ citizenship.

Survival rates fall from 70 per cent in the 1990s to 45 per cent now.

Rescuer killed by avalanche, John Harrison, was one of New Zealand's top climbers.

Stoats ate almost every chick and egg in a Fiordland crested penguin research project.

The inmate who died at Hawkes Bay Prison on Friday was Kolby Heta.

The cause of death is not yet known, but photos show possible blunt force trauma to the head.

The homes are between Whangamata and Tairua, areas among the most affected by record-breaking rains.

A three-metre-long Leopard seal has been relaxing at Tutukaka

COMMENT: While those who oppose 1080 will say it's indiscriminate, what's the alternative, asks Rachel Smalley.

Breeding colony of 2000 seals north of Kaikoura at risk as part of SH1 rebuild.

COMMENT: Parks provide essential services from cradle to grave and need to be reserved decades ahead of use.

There are, clearly, mechanisms which could help better manage pressures arising from tourism - and sustain the appeal of our natural assets.

COMMENT: Dame Fiona Kidman's submission to the select committee on Pike River was study in empathy, writes Audrey Young.

The teenager jailed for six years after he stabbed a West Auckland dairy owner to death has been granted regular releases from jail.

DoC staff were tonight monitoring a pod of about 200 pilot whales milling around in the sea off Golden Bay.

A bush fire near a Taupo native forest is well under control but it will take crews another few days to make sure it's completely out.

Hundreds of volunteers last night kept a vigil over 120 whales restranded on Farewell Spit near Golden Bay.