It's noisy, smelly, shy – and New Zealand’s bird of the year. The hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin, won the country’s fier ...

To mark the anniversary of the king's coronation in 2016, she received a traditional Maori "moko" tattoo on her chin. King Tuheitia, a 69-year-old truck-driver-turned-royal, died on Friday ...

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Balancing your identity and respectability politics sometimes means taking on a different tone or behavior to fit in ...

The yellow-eyed penguin has won New Zealand's fiercely-contested Bird Of The Year competition - with campaigners hoping its ...

A scholar of moko kauae says the facial tattoos have long been a way wahine Māori have resisted colonial oppression. A ...