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Rare bird living in suburbia

Residents of a leafy street in suburban Auckland are keeping their cats in at night and are helping Department of Conservation staff catch an adventurous and rare kokako.

Daytripper: Here be dragons

Once the kids see Reptile Park's residents, they'll want to stay and stare, writes Dionne Christian.

Little girl forced to say farewell to her best pri-mate

Making the fury fly

Ingrid Newkirk compares factory farming to the Holocaust and SeaWorld to slavery. Carole Cadwalladr crosses swords with the founder of Peta.

Four new beagle puppies on border patrol

Mazda helps safeguard falcon

Kokako head into the wilds

The progress of a pair of rare New Zealand kokako will be tracked via radio transmitters when they are released into the wild this weekend.

Dumping of kittens, cats 'disgraceful'

The Otago SPCA says the dumping of nine kittens and two cats near a swede stand between Milton and Waihola yesterday was "disgraceful".

Company admits failing to feed cows

A Taupo dairy company's guilty plea of failing to provide sufficient food for hundreds of cows sends a "strong deterrent message'', Federated Farmers says.

Man jailed for driving into endangered black-billed gulls

Samuel John Townhill, 39, pleaded guilty in Ashburton District Court yesterday to two charges of destroying the nests of black-billed gulls laid under the Wildlife Act.

Horrific animal abuse on the rise

A flood of animal abuse cases in the courts has coincided with the launch of a national animal welfare strategy.

Rescuer's endless mission

Linda Nunn has rescued, rehabilitated and rehomed thousands of animals, and once found homes for 1700 wild chickens being starved and slaughtered in Albany.

Sandra Kyle and Lynley Tulloch: Factory farms an assault on humanity

Today, more than 70 billion animals are raised and killed for food worldwide annually, the majority in factory farms.

Shar Carlin: Zoo happiest home for this elephant

Pressure should be put on any zoo not up to standard, but a zoo like Auckland's needs to be acknowledged for its great work with Burma, writes Shar Carlin.

Strategy to improve animal welfare announced

Newborn cheetah cubs put down

Orana Wildlife Park vets have today made the "agonising decision'' to put down three newborn cheetah cubs who were abandoned by their mother at birth.

Man allegedly beat pigs with iron bar

A Canterbury lifestyle block owner is facing animal welfare charges after allegedly beating four pigs with an iron bar.

Mozambique's last rhinos wiped out by poachers

The last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique have been wiped out by poachers apparently working in cahoots with the game rangers responsible for protecting them.