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Under the Bridge: A Year Inside Papakura High School
At the edge of the city and the margins of society, a school and its students are fighting back.
New Zealand’s Maori Won Personhood for This River
The government of New Zealand worked together with the indigenous Maori to legally confer the Whanganui River the rights of an individual.
Kim Dotcom: The Man Behind Megaupload
In October 2013, VICE News was invited to visit the infamous tech mogul and creator of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, at his palatial property in New Zealand. Even though Kim is under house arrest—since he’s at the center of history’s largest copyright case—he’s still able to […]
Wallabies: New Zealand’s forgotten pest
Most New Zealanders would never have seen a wallaby in the wild despite them being here for well over 100 years. But numbers are now exploding and they’re escaping the special containment zones.
1080 Science: How and why 1080 poison is used in New Zealand
This is part one of a short video, jointly produced by the TBfree New Zealand and Hawke’s Bay Regional Council as a response to the Graf brothers’ documentary ‘Poisoning Paradise’. It looks at the facts around the use of biodegradable 1080 poison in New Zealand […]
Kids In New Zealand Are Out To Kill The Country’s Invasive Mammals
Two years ago, New Zealand embarked on an ambitious effort to rid the country of every single rat, stoat, and possum. The invasive mammals were killing around 25 million of the country’s native, flightless birds each year, and the government wanted to give its rare […]
Carbon farming: fighting New Zealand’s agricultural emissions
Agriculture accounts for almost half of greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand. It’s one reason the government is encouraging farmers to grow trees for carbon credits, which can then be sold, mainly to large companies looking to offset their emissions. Juliet Speedy meets a couple […]
The Christchurch massacre and the rise of right-wing extremism
The terror attack in the New Zealand city of Christchurch appalled the world. The indiscriminate murder of 50 Muslim worshippers during Friday prayers was calculated to spread fear and a message of right-wing terror. Four Corners investigates how the Australian born killer was able to […]
Trapped in the volcano: How the cruise of a lifetime turned into a deadly nightmare
In December 2019, the Ovation of the Seas left Sydney bound for a 12-day trans-Tasman cruise to New Zealand. The luxury holiday promised great entertainment and the opportunity to get up close to the country’s renowned natural beauty. But things quickly turned nightmarish when a […]