In 2024, news broke about the successful reintroduction of the takahē, a beautiful prehistoric bird, back into the wild.

These sanctuaries have been pivotal in reducing the threats that once devastated takahe populations, such as predation by introduced mammals like stoats and habitat destruction due to land clearance.

Thought to have disappeared many years ago, the Takahē, a sizeable flightless bird, has reemerged in the woodlands of New Zealand’s South Island. Their unexpected return on the alpine terrain is a ...

Tūmai Cassidy from Ngāi Tahu, the principal Māori tribe of the South Island, says that “They’re almost prehistoric looking. Seen from the front, their bodies can seem almost perfectly round. With ...

From cliff-scaling skinks to takahē on tramping tracks, species around the motu have hit milestones of all kinds in the past ...

In 2019, former President Jimmy Carter showed up at a Habitat for Humanity site in Nashville with a smile — and a black eye. One day earlier, Carter, then 95, had fallen and needed 14 stitches ...

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