A killer elephant remains alone at a closed zoo where the owners are refusing offers of help.

A healthy family pet has been accidentally put down after going to the SPCA for desexing.

Persistent prompting by an Auckland scientist has persuaded the shipping industry to rearrange its schedules, for a whale.

Shipping companies have agreed to slow down and alter course in the Hauraki Gulf in an effort to save an endangered resident whale.

In an emotion-charged ceremony, Rochelle Constantine was one of three inaugural recipients of the Holdaway Awards at the Hauraki Gulf Forum's annual seminar this month.

Pamela Wade reminds us what to do when an illegal hitch-hiker comes home with us from an overseas trip.

She's been an internet sensation, now Grumpy Cat has landed a 'spokescat' endorsement deal with Friskies that should turn that famous frown upside down.

He's carrying the hopes of a nation, and now Dean Barker has another claim to fame - lending his name to a rare kiwi chick.

Trying to swat a fly is like trying to shoot Keanu Reeves in The Matrix because time appears to move more slowly in the minds of smaller animals.

The search is on for the people who shaved a family cat in Christchurch and marked a swastika on its back.

Chickens are increasingly common in suburban gardens but many owners are unaware of the potential dangers of their pets.

Fourteen rare Okarito rowi kiwi have been taken to vets in the North Island with sore bottoms.

A Christchurch wildlife park is in mourning after a much-loved ostrich died in Tuesday's storm.

One hundred grey shark fins, and one orange fin, are floating in Wellington harbour today to mark the final day of shark awareness week.

It's the ape equivalent of Google Maps and Facebook. The night before a big trip, Arno the orangutan plots his journey and lets others know where he is going with a long, whooping call.

An 84-year-old man has been killed near Paris after an elephant belonging to a local circus escaped from its pen and hit him with its trunk.

Our neighbours have two large dogs on their well-fenced urban property. We have two problems with them.

Conservation groups say a new government proposal to help the world's rarest marine dolphin, Maui's dolphin, is inadequate and will not save the species from extinction.

Black labrador puppy Amani will have a tough job keeping up with his foster brothers - cheetah cubs Winspear and Kamau.

Conservation Week has launched today with a proposal for a new conservation park on Great Barrier Island and a pest eradication programme on Rakitu Island in the Hauraki Gulf.

Three apes startled hundreds of visitors to a Christchurch wildlife park yesterday when they escaped from their enclosure.

Ports of Auckland will ask ships to slow down in and out of the harbour to save endangered whales in the Hauraki Gulf.

After enduring a tiresome journey by launch, car, aeroplane and helicopter, JJ the takahe wasted no time establishing the pecking order at her new Tiritiri Matangi home.