Misinformation about the Treaty of Waitangi, its language and its intent is at the centre of the Treaty Principles Bill introduced to Parliament this week.
I began this week with an appeal to readers to help support the future of New Zealand Geographic by subscribing. The response has been humbling, and we have been flooded with emails from subscribers ...
NZGeo has been an icon of environmental journalism for 35 years, but times are changing, and we need your help to survive. It seems like every day brings bad news. Our planet is on fire, or flooding, ...
Much of New Zealand’s coastal property has an expiry date, with its value set to be wiped off the ledger in as little as nine years’ time, well before sea levels rise and coastlines are redrawn. What ...
Last night finalists, well-wishers, sponsors and the New Zealand Geographic team gathered for this year's Photographer of the Year awards night. It was opened by a karanga and mihi from Ngāti Whātua, ...
It was print week in the New Zealand Geographic offices, a time of furious activity, where the last details come together and giant pile of work turns into a magazine. Features snap into shape and ...
Despite the threats posed by accelerating climate change, invasive species, habitat loss and pollution, the environment still seems to be a tradable commodity here in New Zealand. Something that can ...
Cub reporter Harriet Morris got her start as a toddler, assisting her dad, writer Bill Morris, to document correspondence school and the New Zealand ploughing championships. For this issue, Bill ...
For centuries, in the rolling green fields of the British Midlands, Hams Hall sat nestled in a copse of sturdy yew trees. The inhabitants of the three-storey stone mansion and its surrounding hamlets ...
Where do young sea creatures spend their first weeks? What’s at the root of oceanic food chains? Kelp forests are to Aotearoa what coral reefs are to other marine ecosystems. Or they used to be. South ...
The market—and human appetite—are often to blame for ecosystem destruction. But in the case of kina barrens, they might be part of the solution. Kina fisherman Peter Herbert, universally known as Herb ...
The invasive seaweed Caulerpa brachypus was discovered in New Zealand just over a year ago, and it promises to ruin everything. On Aotea/Great Barrier Island, people are sacrificing their way of life ...