Last week, residents were evacuated from Waipoua Settlement in Northland as the blaze threatened over 20 homes.

Plantation forests take up about seven per cent of New Zealand’s land area, mostly in the North Island. Now, researchers have mapped these forests using a combination of airborne laser scanning and ...

“I love the hills and the area, it’s part of your DNA.” But while her beloved hills remain as green pasture to fatten stock, she’s now surrounded by pine trees on every boundary fence.

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Southland sheep, beef and dairy farmer Dean Rabbidge, to ...

New Zealand and Flinders University experts have deployed artificial intelligence and 3D laser scanning to accurately map planted pine (radiata) forests for most of NZ's North Island. The results ...