In the last two weeks, a highly trained group of once-abandoned dogs have proved invaluable in quake-torn Christchurch.

Discovering history buried under the vast grounds of Queensland's outback.

Release your inner palaeontologist and dig for dinosaurs in Winton, writes Pamela Wade.

Liz Light visits Westland's kotuku colony.

The Canterbury SPCA has taken in more than 150 pets from people displaced by the earthquake and has promised to care for them until they can be taken back.

Christchurch's devastating earthquake has highlighted the benefits of micro-chipping your pets, says the SPCA.

Clare Kendall is mesmerised by the unusual beauty of flamingos and the many other jaw-dropping sights of Tanzania.

Staff numbers have been cut at the zoo and insiders warn it is close to collapse.

The Soil and Health Association is backing calls by the Green Party for a parliamentary inquiry into failed genetic experiments on animals.

Hihi - otherwise known as stitchbirds - may well be New Zealand's most interesting birds.

The endangered hihi birds - also known as stitchbirds - continue to fascinate.

Animal rights protesters plan to spend the night chained to silos on a battery hen farm near Pukekohe, 50km south of Auckland, in a bid to draw attention to the caged birds' living conditions.

Sally Hawkins fell for New Zealand while her character in Love Birds fell for Rhys Darby, writes Jacqueline Smith

The death of a dolphin after a collision with a boat in the Hauraki Gulf has prompted a warning for boaties to take care around marine mammals.

The Japanese whaling fleet appears to have called an early end to its whaling season in Antarctica, a move which conservationists tentatively say could spell an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean.