If you love the coast you’ll love this bird! From the harbour islands to the South Coast and even in the heart of the city, the Little Blue Penguin shares some of our favourite places. As they waddle up beaches with flippers outstretched, we can’t help but love them. It’s the world’s smallest penguin at […]

Being a New Zealand bank, it was only appropriate for us to select the yellow-eyed penguin since it appears on the New Zealand $5 bill. Click here for The Co-operative’s Bank Yellow-eyed penguin video. Let’s be honest – it takes something special to make it onto one of the nation’s most popular pieces of paper. […]

The Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Bill, known as the EEZ Bill, is among the most important pieces of legislation being progressed by John Key’s government. Forest & Bird, and everyone who cares about our marine environment, wants to support it. As drafted at the moment, the Bill risks our oceans and […]

There’s a worldwide fish fight going on. There are huge levels of by-catch, over-fishing and practices that ravage the environment. The forecast for the health of our oceans is grim, even in New Zealand. Which is why we hope Kiwis will embrace the newly released Best Fish Guide and make eco-friendly choices when buying seafood. […]

Although a National government has been returned, in a way Kiwis did “vote for nature” as our election campaign asked. The prospects for Nature in the next three years are not all quite as bleak as you might imagine. It is a very interesting Parliament and there are some reasons to hope that Forest & […]

Seabirds – as a general rule – are rather large. Large wings designed to sail the wind’s currents; a long beak equipped with a salt-extracting unit and a large pair of paddle-like feet are de rigueur in seabirds. Unlike most seabirds though, the common diving petrel (kuaka) has few of these attributes. It’s fitted out […]

Blogger: Campaign Manager for the Emperor Penguin and Wellington Zoo Vet Lisa Argilla. While not widely recognised as native birds to New Zealand, the occasional appearance of Emperor penguins on our shores as well as New Zealand’s stakehold in Antarctica means that these guys should definitely be considered honorary citizens of New Zealand. The largest of […]

Guest blogger – Photographer, Tom Marshall A comment my colleague and I often get as New Zealand photographers is ‘you must have had a wonderful time in Antarctica’. As much as I’d love to say ‘yes, it was awesome, but a bit chilly’, the truth is we’ve never set foot south of Dunedin and people […]

Guest Blogger: Radio New Zealand’s Our Changing World environment reporter, Alison Ballance Last week I interviewed two NIWA scientists – Philip Boyd and Cliff Law – about ocean fertilisation, or iron enrichment. Most of us have heard about this ambitious plan, to help solve global warming by dumping large amounts of iron into the ocean, generating […]