Kauri Dieback

Hell Pizza is facing heat - and perhaps even legal woes - over its gimmick to serve fake meat without telling customers.  Audio

A new report has slammed MPI's handling of kauri dieback as "appalling". The Environment Select Committee report called the agency slow to act in its response to the threat.  Audio

Right now, one of the biggest kauri seed collections in decades is happening across the upper North Island - trying to fight back against kauri dieback. Audio, Gallery

Kauri are a symbol of New Zealand, but in kauri dieback they face an existential crisis which we are not taking as seriously as we need to. Audio

Auckland council has been doing major work to protect against the spread of Kauri dieback diesease. Video, Audio

Conservation group Forest and Bird is closing seven of its reserves with kauri trees to try and stop the spread of dieback disease. The group says there's been a lack of leadership in the fight… Audio

Forest and Bird is closing seven of its reserves immediately, to try to stop the spread of the kauri dieback disease. Chief executive Kevin Hague says while all of the reserves are believed to be… Audio

Researchers at Scion hope that thousands of tiny kauri seedlings might include some that are resistant to kauri dieback disease. Audio

Plant pathologists here have been trying to get an eye-in-the-sky project off the ground that would use airborne cameras and thermal imaging detectors to map at risk trees, long before symptoms are… Audio

A former biosecurity manager for the Auckland Council is horrified by the widespread presence of kauri dieback in a Northland forest. The levels of the disease in the Waipoua forest are so severe that… Audio