Kapiti Island may be 200 million years old, but it continues to evolve, delivering exciting, new and ecologically-friendly experiences to everyone who visits. Kāpiti Coast District Council Economic ...

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An investigation is underway into the cause of a fire that destroyed a ranger’s house on Kapiti Island yesterday. The single storey wooden dwelling, built at Rangatira during the mid-1990s, caught ...

Large sections of the Kapiti Coast are at risk during a tsunami, according to new maps made public days after New Zealand was put on high alert. The maps, put together by Greater Wellington Regional ...

The wild west coast of Kapiti Island. It hovers on the coastline like a giant ocean liner, its silhouette resembling an impregnable floating fortress. Long on my Kiwi bucket-list, I finally took a ...

PRODUCTIVE: Part of a massive sea anemone bed between Kapiti Island and the mainland. A massive sea anemone bed has been discovered during a cutting edge survey of the seafloor environment around ...

The relocation of 20 kiwi from Kapiti Island will not only help increase genetic diversity at their new locations, but also to grow the population in their old one. The little spotted kiwi were moved ...

The continued coexistence of ecologically similar species relies on niche separation in space or time. Four similar species of introduced rodent occur in New Zealand, but the mechanism(s) allowing ...

Setting aside the small matter of having to travel halfway round the world to get there from the UK, there are few nature reserves as easily accessible as Kapiti Island. That said, you need a keen ...