Head to this heritage trail in the far south of New Zealand to explore some of the country's most stunning landscapes and see ...

A Petrified Forest will be at MegaCon all weekend. In the meantime, it’s looking forward to creating more frights at its seasonal event this fall, which will mark its 17th year being part of the ...

According to Forest & Bird, there are fewer than 3,000 of the birds across New Zealand and Australia, but that number was even lower a few decades ago and has been steadily increasing thanks in ...

Beyond the incredible blue badlands and crystalized fossils, the Petrified Forest National Park has connections with a handful of Native American groups. A short walk to the Puerco Pueblo takes ...

New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest on the North Island.

Best time to visit Petrified Forest National Park While the park is open year-round (with the exception of a few holidays), some times are better to visit than others.

New Zealand’s original forested landscape has been greatly fragmented since human arrival, limiting connectivity and habitat quality for forest-dependent fauna. We review the limited available ...

The year was 2014. The troop had been on a spring hike in the park, a rather regular occurrence thanks to the elder Parker’s interest in sharing Petrified Forest’s extraordinary prehistoric resources, ...