The Soil and Health Association is backing calls by the Green Party for a parliamentary inquiry into failed genetic experiments on animals.

Hihi - otherwise known as stitchbirds - may well be New Zealand's most interesting birds.

The endangered hihi birds - also known as stitchbirds - continue to fascinate.

Animal rights protesters plan to spend the night chained to silos on a battery hen farm near Pukekohe, 50km south of Auckland, in a bid to draw attention to the caged birds' living conditions.

Sally Hawkins fell for New Zealand while her character in Love Birds fell for Rhys Darby, writes Jacqueline Smith

The Japanese whaling fleet appears to have called an early end to its whaling season in Antarctica, a move which conservationists tentatively say could spell an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.

A mummified cat believed to have been stuck in the walls of a home for more than 55 years has been found by a surprised builder.

DOC says the longer a refloated pod of whales are in deep water the better the chances they will not restrand

Enjoy your shucking while it lasts. Wild oysters are now "functionally extinct" in many places where they were once plentiful.

About 70 pilot whales which became stranded at the top of the South Island have made it to deeper water.

A group of pilot whales appears to have beached once more on Farewell Spit, at the top of the South Island.

A pod of 66 pilot whales beached west of Nelson yesterday swam off on the high tide overnight, DOC says.