The carcasses of beached pilot whales are pictured on the west coast of New Zealand's remote Chatham Islands, on Oct. 8, 2022. About 500 pilot whales have died in mass strandings on New Zealand's ...

While walking near a dune on New Zealand's Chatham Island, a family noticed wood sticking out of the sand — which turned out ...

One from the archives! By the 1990s Chatham Island tūī had all but disappeared from the main island. Slightly different to their mainland counterparts these songbirds had survived on nearby Pitt and ...

Rēkohu, or the Chatham Islands, are situated 500 miles to the east of South Island, New Zealand. The South Pacific archipelago is quite remote and comprises 10 islands spread out across 37 miles.

It's not uncommon for pilot whales to become stranded, particularly on the Chatham Islands, the group and conservation department said. "This is one of the larger events for mass strandings in New ...

The Chatham Islands in New Zealand, which are surrounded by sharks, have seen 4,000 whales perish on their shores in the past 120 years. Over the past week, two mass pilot whale strandings have ...

Some 230 whales became stranded — or beached — northwest of Chatham Island on Friday, and 245 more washed up on Pitt Island, south of the archipelago, on Monday, the New Zealand Department of ...

Chatham Island Taiko (Pterodroma magentae), a seabird endemic to Chatham Island, in New Zealand. For nearly a century it was thought to be extinct, after its population collapsed due to habitat ...

A commercial diver has been killed in an horrific shark attack in New Zealand.. Jade Kahukore-Dixon, 24, was mauled off the Chatham Islands, about 800km east of the South Island, at midday on Tuesday.

A great white shark is believed to have killed a 24-year-old commercial diver near the Chatham Islands in New Zealand on Tuesday, Nov. 19 ...