The proposed changes close off that option, meaning any student wanting to go to university would be taking a risk in adding ...

In 2025, there were 36 winners in Photographer of the Year, each a compelling reflection of who we are as a people and the environment we live in. Peking Duk, an electronica act from Canberra, perform ...

Rebekah White unfolds the little-known story of Thomas Ward, the surveyor who precisely mapped Wellington as the city ballooned in the late 1800s. Ward recorded the footprint of each building, right ...

These lustrous pieces of agate were found on Rangiatea Station in Canterbury, home to Sara and Bill Gallagher. The farm is rich in agates, and the couple use some of it to run a small jewellery ...

This anniversary issue of our longest-running literary journal will chime with New Zealand Geographic readers: many of the essays, stories and poems trace a connection to land. Kids swim in a river ...

Kim Logan had the sort of childhood where he was so hungry he’d sneak dog biscuits at night. Once, after accidentally starting a fire in their treehouse, he and his brother hid under the family home ...

An Auckland Zoo programme is saving the Hauturu-o-toi/Little Barrier Island wētāpunga. When people talk about their gateway drugs at university, you don’t normally expect the answer to be the Poor ...

Every autumn, hundreds of newly fledged Cook’s petrel chicks emerge from their burrows in the dark of the Hauraki Gulf and launch into their first big flight—a night trip across Auckland, heading to ...

How the Pacific Leprosy Foundation is helping a Fijian father overcome the stigma of a debilitating disease. Often thought of as a biblical disease, leprosy is still affecting lives in 2025. Solomoni, ...

A year ago I rapped out a letter much like this one. It was something new for us: an unvarnished appraisal of New Zealand Geographic’s position—our founding principles, finances and uncertain future.

In 1889, Thomas Ward proposed something unique for the capital city: a really, really, really good map.

A new assessment of Aotearoa’s mosses shows about a third of our 560-odd species are classified as at risk or threatened, with 16 deemed “nationally critical”. One of the most precarious is Lindbergia ...