Between August and October each year, humpback whales stop to shelter and sing under the lee of Niue....

Dan Makaia tends his family taro patch. For many years, taro was the chief export of the island, and Niue’s...

Hakupu locals gather on the first Sunday of the month—White Sunday. The church is an important focal point for the...

Look around. This is what a healthy and diverse coral reef looks like....

Coral crevices along Niue’s shore harbour dens of writhing sea snakes, no more so than at Snake Gully. Here, snakes...

Spinner dolphins—slender torpedoes of the tropics—tumble like gymnasts on the displacement wave of a charter fishing boat....

Gorgonian fans the size of golf umbrellas filter the cool water upwelling on the reef edge....

In Avatele, Hine Makaia and Bretrick Vakanofiti ply their vaka out through the passage in the reef to fish....

The Huvalu Forest Conservation Area stretches across a verdant swathe of the island’s south-east. Much of it is primary growth,...

Researchers Jake Levenson, Olive Andrews and Rosie Dodd attempt to attach a LIMPET satellite tracking tag to a whale....