Fiona Pardington hopes an exhibition of her images of New Zealand’s extinct and endangered birds will encourage debate, as the nation weighs its environmental responsibilities.

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great changes. The landscape of today bears little resemblance to that of a mere ...

The flightless birds were decimated by invasive creatures that humans brought with them to the country Gerald Corsi/Getty In New Zealand, conservationists are looking at new ways to protect the ...

New Zealand's rarest birds have seemingly come back from the dead. For decades, they were thought to be extinct until tiny populations were rediscovered, the holdouts that survived against the odds.

There is an air of the spectral to Fiona Pardington’s recent photographs of birds. While they are actual specimens, captured ...

The kiwi is New Zealand's most iconic bird. Round and fuzzy, the bird is flightless and has a long beak that makes it adorable or awkward, depending on who you ask. New Zealanders are even known as ...

'We don’t have the Eiffel Tower or the pyramids, but we do have kakapo," says New Zealand Department of Conservation’s Deidre Vercoe. The world’s only flightless parrot species was once thought to be ...

The world’s only flightless parrot species was once thought to be doomed by design. The kakapo is too heavy, too slow and, frankly, too delicious to survive around predators, and takes a shamelessly ...