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.

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In the spring of 2018, for a feature we published in Issue 155, Richard Robinson photographed endangered tarāpuka, ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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, ...

You may have seen we ran a poll for readers to help us with our decision on the cover of the latest issue—an electric blue freshwater crayfish, or a gnarled bonsai tree. The bonsai won, and ever since ...

Grebes are an ancient group of diving birds, quite unrelated to ducks and swans. The southern, or Australasian, crested grebe is one of New Zealand’s least known aquatic birds, a secretive but ...

Hatched in rivers, mayflies rise to the surface and unfurl new wings, the final phase of their precarious and astonishing lifecycle. At dusk, on the upper Waiau River under the swingbridge entrance to ...

In 1834, the Englishman William Swainson was at the height of his scientific career. Aged 45, loaded with honours from the scientific academies and institutions of Paris, Quebec, South Africa, ...