Butterfly

It's spectacularly spiky and delivers a painful or even deadly sting. Why are a team of conservationists growing and planting up Orokonui Ecosanctuary near Dunedin with more and more native tree… Audio

Bianca Woyak from Burnside Primary School has won the 2021 Prime Minister's Science Teachers Prize. Claire Concannon visits to get a tour of all the outdoor science that has been happening at the… Audio

Two stories of Aotearoa New Zealand conservation communities who are caring for the flora and fauna in their backyards. Claire learns about the Catlins Bats on the Map project while Katy learns about… Audio

An endangered plant and a rare butterfly are both being carefully nurtured at a Christchurch restoration project. For this week's Our Changing World, Katy Gosset visits the Charlesworth Reserve and… Audio

Nobel prize-winning geneticist Sir Paul Nurse's latest book, What Is Life?, explores the question of what we as humans share with all other living things on this planet.  Audio

In many parts of the country, a monarch caterpillar pops up as rarely as a blue moon - but in some spots, people are inundated with these cute crawlers. Audio