One spring, Annette Lees was given a bat monitor for her birthday—a black and olive plastic gadget with knobs for adjusting volume and frequency and a speaker to announce when a bat was nearby. It is ...

Get out of the city this summer and you’re bound to glimpse a kāhu. The powerful, clever native hawks are revered by those who come to know them. And yet we’ve been slaughtering them for a century and ...

At best, our recycling system is deeply inefficient. Some argue it’s also a deliberate deception—an industry ploy to stop consumers thinking too hard about buying stuff in the first place. But one ...

Craig Mckenzie was surprised that New Zealand Geographic didn’t pick this photograph as part of our 2017 feature on kākāriki karaka, orange-fronted parakeets (‘Last Chance to See’, Issue 147). The ...

Most journalists I know feed their interview recordings to an AI called Otter, then go through each transcript word-for-word, listening to the tape as they read, to pick up mistakes. Otter is far from ...

Cook Strait was Adam Walker’s sixth marathon swim, and a quarter of the way in, he was struggling. The water was much colder than during his previous swims, the choppy waves were making him seasick, ...

Sixteen years ago, Richard Robinson met a Polish woman, Ania Matuszczak, diving at the Poor Knights. Now, the couple live in Auckland, and have three kids—from left, Nina, Eva and Ted. “For us they’re ...

Tom Neale is dropped off on Suwarrow, an uninhabited atoll some 900 kilometres north-northwest of Rarotonga, on October 7, 1952. As soon as he is alone, he takes off his shorts. He only puts them on ...

It arrived in a wooden cabinet, each drawer of it a family: Calliostomatinae, Volutidae, Turbinidae. One of every kind of ...