The more visitors within a five-metre radius of the koalas, the more vigilance behaviour koalas displayed, which puts them in an alert state.

Cats are cuter than babies and dogs when it comes to the popularity of videos, new research shows.

We take a look at balut and some other controversial food items to see if we should really be concerned.

The last remaining 55 of world's rarest species of dolphins could disappear within three decades if New Zealand doesn't act now, wildlife advocates say.

Thousands of sheep in Australia are believed to have died after eating a poisonous plant that makes them “bash their heads on posts and rocks until they crack open”.

Police had to be called after an Ashmore presented its owner with a 5g bag of cannabis.

The cat population at Auckland SPCA has reached critical levels and families willing to adopt pets are urgently needed.

Eighty native birds have been caught on Little Barrier Island and delivered to a new wildlife reserve in the Hauraki Gulf.

here are clearly a lot of arachnophobes. But do they know why they fear spiders? Can they do something to control those fears?

An Auckland restaurant serving duck eggs with developing embryo has been cleared by the SPCA for possible cruelty against unhatched ducklings.

Scientists have discovered a pre-historic mainland species of sea lion thought to have been wiped out by Polynesian settlers and replaced by the modern NZ sea lion.

A new study has put even more genetic distance between the extinct moa and their old bush mates, the kiwi, but found similarities with a South American bird.

In NZ animals are afforded basic rights - including freedom and suffering. Except the 3 million made to take part in experiments, writes Sally Hibbard.

A band of foreign snakes that are said to be capable of crushing small children to death are on the loose in North London.

A Whangarei man was sent for the barbaric torture of at least 10 possums, including nailing them to trees and chopping off their limbs.

A dog has killed a male kiwi that was living in the wild just north of Wellington.

Experts have flown in from all over the world. Samples have been taken. And now the waiting begins... Will Tian Tian, Edinburgh Zoo's giant panda, deliver?

An extremely rare female deep-water megamouth shark has been caught off the coast of Shizuoka in Japan, in what is believed to be only the 58th known sighting of the animal on record.

A man who filmed himself nailing a possum to a tree has been sentenced to prison.

More than 170 sharks have been caught and 50 destroyed as part of Australia's controversial culling policy, government figures have revealed.

Defenders of dogs, cats and rats are starting to feel that this could be their year. They've joined forces to make animal welfare an election issue for the first time.