Washed up

At Auckland Zoo, a rising tide of critically ill marine patients is inundating the Vet Hospital....

A welcome infestation

An Auckland Zoo programme is saving the Hauturu-o-toi/Little Barrier Island wētāpunga....

Solomoni comes out of hiding

How the Pacific Leprosy Foundation is helping a Fijian father overcome the stigma of a debilitating disease....

A vanished world

From fossils to boulders, heritage precincts to glacial moraines, the Waitaki Whitestone Geopark rocks....

New rules for a new world order

By Shamubeel Eaqub, Chief Economist at Simplicity...

Going deep

Kaiya Elmes is working hard to protect and preserve the underwater world she treasures....

Little penguins, big success

A penguin colony in a small town on the east coast of the South Island is thriving due to the conservation efforts of Ōamaru Penguins (formerly Ōamaru Blue Penguin Colony)....

Flying visit

MOTAT is striking a balance between the past and the present with a new exhibition called Hautū Aunoa Autopilot....

Serve and protect

Good wine for good people – and good causes....

Home on the range

Three pot plants, a barbecue and four bikes—we load up Toyota’s fully electric car for a classic southern summer roadie....

Making the invisible tangible

Olafur Eliasson: Your curious journey highlights over 30 years of world-renowned artist Olafur Eliasson’s creative work. Featuring installations, sculptures and photographs that explore themes of human perception, experimentation, and environmental awareness, it marks the first solo showcase of the Icelandic-Danish artist in Aotearoa New Zealand – and we’ve got four double passes to give away […]...

Walking in Wānaka

Pretty much every morning and evening, I put the earbuds in, queue up a few podcasts and head off for a walk with our democratically named dog Pepperoni Gustav von Doggington....

Power play

Scientists build a 2000sqm high-tech playground. Kids go berserk....

How low can they go?

Queenstown, Wānaka and the surrounding region have set an audacious goal of becoming carbon zero and creating a regenerative visitor economy by 2030. Right now it might look impossible, but the district remains determined....

Sentinels of change: a new exhibition on the state of Aotearoa’s seabirds

Just as canaries once warned coal miners of carbon monoxide, seabirds signal the declining health of our ecosystem. With the birds increasingly threatened by habitat loss and predators, a new exhibition at The New Zealand Maritime Museum Hui Te Ananui a Tangaroa serves as an urgent call to action for conservation. Sentinel (3 May – […]...

Outward bound

Venture down some of New Zealand’s roads less travelled....

Our three-dimensional climate challenge

To fix the climate problem, New Zealand needs to remove the equivalent of 43.5 megatonnes of carbon dioxide between 2026 and 2030. It will require both reducing emissions and offsetting the balance with permanent forests says Ekos founder Sean Weaver....

Gone for good

First, do no harm. Second, push for better....

Good wool hunting

New Zealand entrepreneurs are developing products for the building sector that put wool’s many positive properties to good use....

A fine balance

For RealNZ, exploration, education and conservation are intertwined....

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Issue 200

Jul - Aug 2026

Solar power
Horses of Huntly
Forget me not
Whaling
Red admirals

Issue 200 Jul - Aug 2026

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When a male South Island robin is in want of a mate, he sings. It’s not a glamorous sound, says ecologist Manaia Pearmain-Fenton. Plee plee plee / chee chee chee. Loud, plinky, like a kid picking at a keyboard. Pearmain-Fenton has whakapapa to Ngāti Hokopū, Ngāti Awa and Te Whakatōhea in the Bay of Plenty. […]...
Tararua Forest Park, 2 days...
When the forecast is just right, Irene and Crispin Middleton wake up in the middle of the night and put to sea....
The blast of the harpoon may have given way to the click of the camera, but whales are still the cornerstone of commerce—and the subject of many a decorative mural—in the north Canterbury town of Kaikoura. In little more than a decade, marine ecotourism has transformed a coastal backwater into an international travel hotspot....
Marine scientist and freediver Kura Paul-Burke on restoring the moana—with action, not just research....
The wind tore at the wave tops until they stood up stiff, driving spray from their crests which was carried with the breeze and lit up by the early morning sun until the air itself seemed filled with glitter. Though the forecasters had predicted a gentle zephyr for the final day of a voyage around […]...
Charles Alcock and the fate of the universe....
Why stick with being male or female your whole life when you could have a go at both?...
The Paparoa Track, set to open in September 2019, is the first new Great Walk in 25 years, and the first built for shared use between walkers and cyclists. Traversing the coal-rich hills between Blackball and Punakaiki, it will pay its respects to the 29 men who lost their lives in the Pike River Mine....
What price do we put on heritage?...

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