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News Articles: New Zealand

The kākāpō is the world's only flightless parrot. It's come back from the brink of extinction, but its future in New Zealand depends on creating habitat without invasive predators. 

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  • Climate

To save its unique and rare birds, New Zealand is turning to AI and genetic research

New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country's rare birds. The goal may not be possible, unless new technology can be developed to do it.

September 18, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer and
  • Ryan Kellman
Mila McKenzie inspects an animal trap in a park in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her student-led group plants trees and traps invasive animals that are killing native birds.

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  • Climate

To save its rare birds, New Zealand is relying on a nation of backyard trappers

New Zealand's unique birds are at risk of extinction, like the kiwi. So the country is trying to eradicate the invasive species that prey on them. Everyday people are lining up to help.

September 15, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer and
  • Ryan Kellman
Kiwi are a national icon in New Zealand, the only place the flightless birds are found. Invasive animals, brought to the country by European settlers, have decimated their numbers.

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  • Climate

New Zealand's bold plan to save endangered animals: kill millions of invasive animals

Many of New Zealand's unique birds are heading toward extinction. So the country is taking on an ambitious conservation project: eradicating the invasive species that prey on them.

September 10, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer and
  • Ryan Kellman
New Zealand lawmakers Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, top left, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, bottom left, and Rawiri Waititi, bottom right, watch as other legislators debate their proposed bans in parliament in Wellington on Thursday, June 5, 2025.

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  • World

New Zealand Parliament suspends 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka in protest

The suspended lawmakers from the Māori Party performed the haka, a dance of challenge, last November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights.

June 05, 2025
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Books

Jacinda Ardern reflects on a career focused on the power of kindness

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern about balancing leadership and motherhood.

June 03, 2025
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By:
  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Courtney Dorning,
  • and 1 more
In this photo provided by the Australian Defense Force, the People's Liberation Army-Navy Jiangkai-class frigate Hengyang travels in the Torres Strait off Australia's coast, on Feb. 11, 2025.

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  • World

Australia warns airlines to beware of Chinese naval exercises in the Tasman Sea

China had given notice that its warships could potentially fire live weapons during an exercise in the Tasman Sea, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

February 21, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
A man takes a picture of his wife with Mount Taranaki, also known as Mount Egmont, in the background in New Plymouth, New Zealand.

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  • World

A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori

The recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori after New Zealand was colonized. It fulfills an agreement from the country's government to Indigenous people.

January 31, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
New Zealand's highest peak, Aoraki, centre, is seen in the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, on Aug. 17, 2020.

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  • World

3 climbers from the U.S. and Canada are believed to have died in New Zealand

Three mountain climbers — two from the U.S. and one from Canada — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, the authorities said Friday.

December 06, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Rescuers rope off an area around a dead pilot whale that was stranded on Ruakākā Beach in northland, New Zealand on Sunday.

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  • World

New Zealanders help save about 30 whales after a pod strands on a beach

New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It's often not clear why they happen but the island nation's geography is believed to be a factor.

November 25, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Indigenous Māori gather outside Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand on Tuesday.

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  • World

42,000 crowd New Zealand's Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights

Protesters oppose a measure that would reshape the county's founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.

November 19, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon makes a "formal and unreserved" apology in Parliament for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds of thousands of children and vulnerable adults in care, in Wellington, New Zealand on Tuesday.

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  • World

New Zealand's leader apologizes to survivors of abuse in state and church care

An estimated 200,000 people, many of them Indigenous Māori, suffered abuse in New Zealand's foster and faith-based care over a period of seven decades

November 12, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Maori Queen Nga Wai Hono i te Po was anointed on Thursday, a week after the death of her father, who had been king for 18 years.

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  • World

A 27-year-old just became queen of New Zealand's Maori

Tribal leaders selected Nga Wai Hono i te Po as the new monarch after the death of her father last week. The second-ever Maori queen takes on the largely ceremonial role at a complicated moment.

September 05, 2024
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
In this photo provided by the NZ Drug Foundation, a pineapple flavored candy filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine is displayed Tuesday  in Auckland, New Zealand.

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  • World

New Zealand food bank unknowingly distributed meth in candy

The amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take and could be lethal, according to a drug checking and policy organization.

August 14, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
New Zealand Department of Conservation staff assess the remains of a deceased sperm whale.

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  • Animals

The jawbone of washed-up whale in New Zealand was removed with chainsaw and stolen

The jawbone of a nearly 50-foot sperm whale that washed ashore in New Zealand's southernmost region has been removed. While the act is illegal, it's also considered disrespectful to the Māori people.

May 19, 2024
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By:
  • Clare Marie Schneider
Images from some of our most popular global stories of 2023 (left to right): A woman from Brazil's Awa people holds her bow and arrow after a hunt; an artificial intelligence program made this fake photo to fulfill a request for "doctors help children in Africa" — AI added the giraffe; researchers are learning that a stranger's hello can do more than just brighten your day.

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  • Global Health

Our top global posts might change how you think about hunters, AI and hellos

Our most popular global stories of 2023 offer insights into the stereotypes of male hunters/female gatherers, the biases of AI, the best way to end poverty and the impact of a stranger's greeting.

December 17, 2023
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  • Marc Silver
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