For eight years, Kiwi photographers have gathered the best images of our environment and society and submitted them to expert judgment and public scrutiny in the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of ...

In April 2000, a small boulder that had for decades graced the garden of the old St Stephen’s Presbyterian manse in Dunedin was ceremoniously welcomed home by the people of Moeraki. The rock had begun ...

Tawaki, or Fiordland crested penguins, have plenty of food along the coastline where they breed, yet every year they make a trip to the Subtropical and Subantarctic Fronts and back to feed—a swim of ...

She has a name. It’s Phan Thi Kim Phuc. But to many who have ever seen this iconic and historic image, she is simply known as The Napalm Girl. The Pulitzer Prize winning photograph captured by ...

There’s a delightful symmetry to how Gerry Gilmore became one of the world’s pre-eminent experimental astrophysicists. The path of his professional life was a consequence—as it was with the Big ...

The chemistry of seawater is changing, becoming more acidic, and this transformation is most profound along our coastlines. In this delicate borderland between land and sea, some places are ...

Great Mercury was one of the first sites of human habitation in New Zealand. Last year, a radical new public-private partnership sought to rid the island of pests. It was a unique operation, and the ...

Here we are—a nation of parents, grandparents and children all in the same boat, together at home. He waka eke noa. Every day of the lock-down we will post a story or video and set of activities that ...

The planting of Russell lupins as sheep feed in the Canterbury high country is triggering a clash between farming and conservation values. In early summer, photographers jostle for space on the ...

Although numerous museums have disabused me of the notion that spe­cial collections have to be displayed in stodgy, poorly lit, indoor spaces, the idea of an open-air native plant museum like ...

It fooled even Sir David Attenborough. In Episode 10 of The Life of Mammals, he assured us that, as one of the few species with sweat glands, our ancestors were able to run down fleet game over ...

One of the rarest ecologies in the world is hiding in plain sight, in the centre of the most central suburb of the largest city in New Zealand. Of more than 5000 hectares of rock forest that once ...