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After banning plastic bags last year, New Zealand now proposes to regulate single-use plastic packaging and to ban various hard-to-recycle plastics and single-use plastic items.

In 2015, then-New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced his commitment to protect the waters surrounding the Kermadec Islands by creating one of the world’s largest fully protected marine areas...For millennia, this ocean region has been pristine, but it could face threats in the future from

A new Department of Conservation study shows there are 35,000 unexplained deaths, in the past eleven years, of the already critical antipodean albatross.

Two North Island farmers are hoping their unique methods of boosting biodiversity and controlling predators on their farm will inspire others. Mark and Felicity Brough created a biodiversity map of their sheep and beef farm at Paerua, near Waitomo, in the central King Country.

A Canterbury University law professor is calling for New Zealand to adopt a 'national oceans policy' and embrace a 'clean blue' image.

It's the longest non-stop flight undertaken by any bird. This year researchers have been able to keep track of every move of some making the journey, as part of a project to learn more about their decline on our shores.

Vast fishing nets have hauled up 29 species of delicate coral from the still, dark depths of New Zealand's oceans. And conservationists are warning that the Government has abandoned protection of the sea bed in favour of expanding bottom trawling.

The Green Party wants at least 30 percent of New Zealand's oceans to be protected by 2030. It also wants a 10 year moratorium on all forms of seabed mining. It's released its "Thriving Oceans Plan" at a campaign event at Bastion Point in Auckland today.

A rare endemic bird wearing an astronaut helmet and riding a rocket to space features as part of a fundraising drive by Rocket Lab in northern Hawke's Bay.

A hungry falcon played a part in a failed attempt to establish a colony of critically endangered shore birds on Mana Island.