Monitoring the sounds of an endangered dolphin species may provide clues to ensuring their survival, a new University of Otago—Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka study shows. Published in the New Zealand Journal of ...

A small dolphin washed ashore on a remote section of New Zealand’s west coast in February 2026. To a casual observer, it might have looked like another marine stranding. Scientists saw something far ...

A small fine meted out to an Otago fisher, who killed a Hector's dolphin then lied to officials, underscores the failure to protect endangered species, a conservation group says. Māui and Hector's ...

Conservation groups are calling for action to reduce dolphin deaths off Canterbury's coastline. A female Hector's dolphin was killed in a set net off Kaikōura's coast and discarded last month, ...