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New Zealand’s forests were cleared at a record pace, and from this destruction, a sport arose: who can fell a tree the fastest? Competitive woodchopping transformed the labour of forestry into a ...

There’s no going back. New Zealand has been irreversibly changed since COVID-19 first arrived here in February. How will this end? February 26 was the highest point of summer, and travellers stepping ...

Wallabies may have evolved in Australia, but they’re so well suited to life in New Zealand that they have reached plague numbers for the second time in a century, eating their way through the ...

Carrying a red hold-all, 22-year-old Neil Roberts strode through the darkness towards the doors of Wairere House in Wanganui—home of the ‘Wanganui Computer’. It was some 25 minutes past midnight on ...

Ploughing—the epitome of the colonial ‘civilising’ of land—is as fundamental to this country’s history as war and rugby. Perhaps it’s not surprising that we make a sport out of it. The ploughing ...

Waiapu River, a treasure of Ngāti Porou, is now known, too, for its volatility. After decades of forestry thrashing the land, every major storm pushes silt and pine slash downriver to the people and ...

In inky darkness, Philip Rush dived from the three-metre rigid inflatable and touched a hand to Dog Rock, at the southwest extremity of Kapiti Island. This formality dispensed with, he turned and ...

Put a drone up and any self-respecting black-backed gull in the vicinity will be there within moments, pecking and hollering and generally bullying the strange, buzzing interloper. “Black-backs are ...

Amid dying kauri in West Auckland’s Waitākere Ranges, Rowan Panther is making masterpieces from muka—plaiting and weaving pale flax fibres into delicate, wearable lace. The leis, collars and ...

A metre and bare milliseconds separate Johnny Racz and Greg Baynes as they vie for the Burt Munro Challenge Trophy on Oreti Beach, near Invercargill. During the 1960s, Munro himself tore up this beach ...