New Zealand is planning to eradicate millions of invasive animals that prey on the country’s rare birds. The goal may not be possible, unless new technology can be developed to do it.
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To save its rare birds, New Zealand is relying on a nation of backyard trappers
New Zealand’s unique birds are at risk of extinction, like the kiwi. So the country is trying to eradicate the invasive species that prey on them. Everyday people are lining up to help.
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New Zealand Parliament suspends 3 lawmakers who performed Māori haka in protest
The suspended lawmakers from the Māori Party performed the haka, a dance of challenge, last November to oppose a widely unpopular bill, now defeated, that they said would reverse Indigenous rights.
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Jacinda Ardern reflects on a career focused on the power of kindness
NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly talks to former Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern about balancing leadership and motherhood.
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3 climbers from the U.S. and Canada are believed to have died in New Zealand
Three mountain climbers — two from the U.S. and one from Canada — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand’s tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, the authorities said Friday.
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New Zealanders help save about 30 whales after a pod strands on a beach
New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It’s often not clear why they happen but the island nation’s geography is believed to be a factor.
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42,000 crowd New Zealand’s Parliament grounds in support of Māori rights
Protesters oppose a measure that would reshape the county’s founding treaty between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown.
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New Zealand’s leader apologizes to survivors of abuse in state and church care
An estimated 200,000 people, many of them Indigenous Māori, suffered abuse in New Zealand’s foster and faith-based care over a period of seven decades
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A 27-year-old just became queen of New Zealand’s Maori
Tribal leaders selected Nga Wai Hono i te Po as the new monarch after the death of her father last week. The second-ever Maori queen takes on the largely ceremonial role at a complicated moment.
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New Zealand food bank unknowingly distributed meth in candy
The amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take and could be lethal, according to a drug checking and policy organization.
