A New Zealand driver came to a halt as a rare creature crossed the road in front of him, a video shows. Screengrab from Campbell Hutchings' video shared by the New Zealand Department of Conservation ...

KARORI WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, New Zealand — As national symbols go, the kiwi makes up in curiosity value for what it lacks in good looks. The squat, flightless bird appears a bit like a cross between a ...

TOKYO (AP) — Two types of New Zealand kiwi birds are a rare bright spot in a mostly grim assessment of global species at risk of extinction. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature ...

The kiwi, an adorable flightless bird from New Zealand, is disappearing, largely because of invasive species brought to the country’s islands by humans. So New Zealand has set a goal of exterminating ...

Like many student volunteers, the kids in the group Town Belt Kaitiaki look after their neighborhood parks — planting trees, weeding, clearing paths. But they also do something less common: ...

On April 12, 2025, @trist020 shared a video from Stewart Island, New Zealand, showing a kiwi bird briefly approaching before quickly running away. The person captioned the video, "Seems like this ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

A long-lost prehistoric bird species makes a triumphant comeback in its native land after being considered extinct.

The country’s Predator Free 2050 project, documented here by photographer Robin Hammond, has the bold aim to completely eradicate three species introduced to the island nation by humans: rats, stoats ...

The kiwi, an adorable flightless bird from New Zealand, is disappearing, largely because of invasive species brought to the country’s islands by... The Ambitious Effort to Save New Zealand’s Iconic ...