Bird catchers will be out in the Auckland suburb of Glendowie today after the runaway kokako was discovered a fortnight ago.

The owner of a dog that ripped a large chunk of flesh from an elderly man's arm is to be prosecuted if the animal is not released to dog control officers.

Two Hector's dolphins have been captured by set nets during an electronic monitoring programme of the set net industry in Timaru.

Residents of a leafy street in suburban Auckland are keeping their cats in at night and are helping Department of Conservation staff catch an adventurous and rare kokako.

Once the kids see Reptile Park's residents, they'll want to stay and stare, writes Dionne Christian.

Ingrid Newkirk compares factory farming to the Holocaust and SeaWorld to slavery. Carole Cadwalladr crosses swords with the founder of Peta.

The progress of a pair of rare New Zealand kokako will be tracked via radio transmitters when they are released into the wild this weekend.

The Otago SPCA says the dumping of nine kittens and two cats near a swede stand between Milton and Waihola yesterday was "disgraceful".

A Taupo dairy company's guilty plea of failing to provide sufficient food for hundreds of cows sends a "strong deterrent message'', Federated Farmers says.

Samuel John Townhill, 39, pleaded guilty in Ashburton District Court yesterday to two charges of destroying the nests of black-billed gulls laid under the Wildlife Act.

A flood of animal abuse cases in the courts has coincided with the launch of a national animal welfare strategy.

Linda Nunn has rescued, rehabilitated and rehomed thousands of animals, and once found homes for 1700 wild chickens being starved and slaughtered in Albany.

Today, more than 70 billion animals are raised and killed for food worldwide annually, the majority in factory farms.

Pressure should be put on any zoo not up to standard, but a zoo like Auckland's needs to be acknowledged for its great work with Burma, writes Shar Carlin.

Orana Wildlife Park vets have today made the "agonising decision'' to put down three newborn cheetah cubs who were abandoned by their mother at birth.

A Canterbury lifestyle block owner is facing animal welfare charges after allegedly beating four pigs with an iron bar.

The last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique have been wiped out by poachers apparently working in cahoots with the game rangers responsible for protecting them.

South Dunedin cat owners are being warned to keep their pets indoors as police investigate an alleged feline serial killer stalking the suburb.

Eight tennis players surrounded a woman and a poodle and fought off a bull terrier that was attacking them in Christchurch at the weekend.

Environmentalists hailed a "victory for bees" after the European Union voted for a ban on the nerve-agent pesticides blamed for the dramatic decline in global bee populations.