Tag: New Zealand

• Saturday, August 18th 2012 - 05:39 UTC

  First shipment of New Zealand lamb to Brazil, a market of “great potential”

  

  New Zealand's first branded lamb shipment to Brazil is scheduled to arrive at the port of Santos in the middle of next month and be available at 120 stores in Sao Paulo and to diners in restaurants and hotels throughout the country.

• Friday, August 10th 2012 - 07:16 UTC

  Volcanic pumice mass, size of Belgium floating off the coast of New Zealand

  

  A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast of New Zealand, reports the Auckland media. The stretch of golf-ball-size pumice rocks was first spotted this week by a New Zealand air force plane about 1,000 kilometres northwest of Auckland.

• Thursday, August 9th 2012 - 06:08 UTC

  New Zealand launches program for high quality marbled beef off grass

  

  The New Zealand government announced last week it will be supporting a program to produce high-quality marbled beef off grass, by combining specific high-marbling genetics with the country’s strengths in pastoral agriculture, according to Joe Burke from the Meat Division of Bord Bia-Irish Food Board.

• Thursday, June 7th 2012 - 22:21 UTC

  New Zealanders “misinformed” about Malvinas war says Argentine ambassador

  

  New Zealanders have been misinformed about the battle for the Falkland Islands between Great Britain and Argentina in 1982, the South American country's ambassador to New Zealand has told an audience in Palmerston North.

• Tuesday, February 28th 2012 - 17:53 UTC

  Giant ‘Kariuku” penguins populated New Zealand some 27 million of years ago

  

  Palaeontologists have unearthed fossils of what they say the tallest ever penguin species that lived in what is now New Zealand some 27 million years ago. The he lanky bird that stood as high as 4.2 feet was also slimmer than modern penguins, with a long beak and flippers.

• Monday, January 23rd 2012 - 15:13 UTC

  Mass pilot whale stranding in New Zealand; desperate efforts to save remaining 77

  

  New Zealand officials say at least 22 pilot whales have died after being beached on the country's South Island.

• Saturday, December 17th 2011 - 06:06 UTC

  NZ Air Force to the rescue of Russian fishing vessels caught in Antarctic ice

  

  A Royal New Zealand Air Force C130 Hercules is making an emergency flight, laden with life-saving supplies, for sinking Russian fishing vessel Sparta stranded in Antarctica.

• Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 17:23 UTC

  Pod of 65 pilot whales stranded in New Zealand; high tide could save 34

  

  Half of a pod of sixty-five pilot whales stranded on the northern tip of New Zealand’s southern island have died and the surviving 34 are stuck in shallow water, between two and three kilometres offshore.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 18:04 UTC

  Dangerous skirmishes anticipated when Japan begins Antarctica whaling season

  

  New Zealand joined Australia in criticizing Japan’s decision to resume whaling in Antarctic waters later this year and Tokyo's announcement that it will increase security for its whaling fleet.

• Monday, October 3rd 2011 - 21:29 UTC

  Gillnets pushing Maui dolphins towards extinction says marine experts

  

  The world's most endangered sea dolphins are sliding towards extinction in the face of damaging fishing methods, experts are warning. Hector's dolphins are found only around New Zealand, where the population has fallen from 30,000 to around 7,000 since nylon fishing nets came into use in the 1970s, a conference on marine bio-diversity in Aberdeen will hear on Thursday.