New Zealand Rare Birds Thought to Be Extinct Have Seemingly Come Back from the Dead amid AI-Assisted Preservation Efforts

New Zealand is turning to artificial intelligence to find new ways to protect incredibly rare species of birds that were once ...

See the giant ‘sea worm’ filmed off the coast of New Zealand

When videographer Steve Hathaway was filming a tourism promo on October 25 on an island off the coast of New Zealand, his ...
Opinion

The Long Wait In The Crate: Why 2035 Is Too Late For New Zealand’s Pigs

New Zealand once prided itself on progressive animal welfare law. The Animal Welfare (Regulations for Management of Pigs) Amendment Bill threatens to make us an outlier for all the wrong reasons. The ...

To save a giant snail, New Zealand targets the non-native critters that eat it

The giant snails of New Zealand are big, slimy, and at risk. Park rangers in New Zealand have spent over a decade trying to save them, and now, they're getting results.

Country Life: LIC's quest to breed low methane emitting bulls

The team of scientists at LIC, the Livestock Improvement Corporation, hope to know by late next year if they can offer ...
People

Owners of the World's Oldest Alpaca Share the Animal's Longevity Secrets

'The personality of my lovely Wainui is now a bit of a grumpy old man,' said the animal's owner, Vicki Cordier Guinness World Records Hawthornden Wainui, 27, is the world’s oldest alpaca in captivity ...