1+ hour, 54+ min ago   (408+ words) Daniil Medvedev overcame an unusual interruption from two birds to fly into the third round of the US Open as he flattened American wildcard Sebastian Gorzny 6-1 6-3 7-5 at Louis Armstrong Stadium. The 2021 champion fired off 14 aces in a lopsided affair, where…...

22+ hour, 18+ min ago   (881+ words) Hundreds of seagulls are plaguing a northern Auckland district, leaving business owners at their wit's end. The birds have damaged roofs, while their excrement has blocked drains and contaminated water in Dairy Flat. The issue has left locals stumped about…...

22+ hour, 26+ min ago   (124+ words) RNZ Hundreds of seagulls plaguing Auckland businesses Hundreds of seagulls are plaguing a northern Auckland district, leaving business owners at their wit's end. The birds are damaging roofs, while their excrement blocks drains and contaminates water in Dairy Flat - well…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1274+ words) Colossal Biosciences calls itself an advanced genetics company that's developing the science that will save us all. But its claims of taking a novel approach to de-extinction that is "not copying or cloning" are disputed by a growing number of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (466+ words) Around 20 late amendments to the two far-reaching bills replacing the Resource Management Act are reigniting concerns about the change. The RMA is being superseded by a Planning Bill and a Natural Environment Bill. The government has introduced extra amendments despite…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (189+ words) Almost 10 million dollars of the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy will be spent on reducing the wild goat and deer population across New Zealand's conservation landscapes. There are approximately 1.8 million wild deer and several hundred thousand wild goats across…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (839+ words) Other images highlighted in the competition featured frogs, fish, birds, and ecologists hard at work — often in uncomfortable conditions. The BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition is open to researchers in ecology, evolutionary biology, palaeontology and zoology…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (469+ words) The Kaikōura Wildlife Centre Trust is seeking ministerial review of the Department of Conservation's decision not to vaccinate little penguins against bird flu. Australian media reported that a Phillip Island little penguin had died from the virus. The Department of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (455+ words) Pacific governments have asked New Zealand for advice on handling the H5 avian influenza, or bird flu, according to the Ministry of Primary and Industries. An adviser on seabirds in New Zealand said Pacific countries and territories should prepare for H5 bird…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (488+ words) Ten years in the game, and 551 raptors on the books. "We started this, basically, in my backyard," Ron Lindsay said, "and it's built to where it is now." Lindsay is a founding member of the NZ Raptor Trust, a group…...