Hunting

Kim Swan, joins Country Life this week for a chat about her latest book and what it takes to be a woman on tough terrain. Audio

A team of hunters heads out every five weeks to a hill country farm to harvest deer meat for Tai Rawhiti's food banks which have been under pressure after devastating weather hit the region this year… Video, Audio

Roger Lentle can tell a lot from a hoofprint. He's spent half a century hunting, tracking and studying deer. and has just published Tracking and Finding Deer in New Zealand. Deer are known to cause… Audio

Spencer Kahu has been farming in the Kaikōura District since he was 14. Now he's 24 and manages two large properties and for him, sustainability, conservation and gathering kai for the whānau go hand… Audio

A cute detection dog called Toby is helping an Otago pest control team track down wily wallabies crossing the Waitaki River.  The  Aussie imports are escaping South Canterbury's Wallaby Containment… Audio

Best of 2022 - Back in the 1950s, a group of wallabies turned up at Wainui Station... and never left.  Audio

The Game Bird hunting season is coming to a close. And if you're unsure how to turn black swan, duck, or Canadian goose into a yummy dish, Club Waimea Chef Phil Hazeldine is here to help. Audio

If you've headed overseas lately, you'll know the process isn't as straightforward as it used to be - with pre-departure RAT tests and the New Zealand Traveller Declaration top of a list of bugbears… Audio

Terressa Kollat has been living off the land her whole life. Born and raised on the Islands in the Hauraki Gulf, she's no stranger to remote living and has always been close to the sea, thanks to her… Audio

If we truly care about animals, says British philosopher Nick Zangwill, then the right thing to do is breed them, kill them, and eat them. Professor Zangill is with us to discuss why eating animals… Audio

Author Simon Garfield's latest book, Dog's Best Friend, draws upon history, science art and the writer's own personal experiences with his black Labrador retriever Ludo, to dissect the enduring… Audio

The annual game-bird hunting season kicks off early tomorrow morning.

However a backlog in firearms licence renewals and our largely closed borders do threaten the season for some.

Our reporter Hugo… Video, Audio

Levi Harrison has answered the call of nature. The modern hunter gatherer lives in the bush in Golden Bay with his partner Annika Korsten. They practice primitive living and are not only surviving… Audio

If you're going to read one book on human origins, Oxford professor and former Dunedinite Tom Higham's new book, The World Before Us: How Science is Revealing a New Story of Our Human Origins should… Audio

Domestic cats appear to hunt less when their diets are richer in animal-sourced protein, according to a newly-released study out of the University of Exeter in England. Professor Robbie McDonald is… Audio

We all know the benefits of exercise — but do we need to run to get the best returns, or can we get a sufficient dose just from walking? Sports engineer Steve Haake pits running against walking and… Audio

The Man-the-Hunter hypothesis looks to have been well and truly debunked, with research suggesting the early big-game hunters of the Americas were female. Dr Randy Haas joins the show to discuss his… Audio