Wild Heroes

The Auckland Zoo vets fight to save a gravely ill sea turtle and travel to the Pacific Islands to support the remarkable Fijian iguana.

A tough decision is made for the wellbeing of geriatric Southern white rhinoceros Zambezi, and the Zoo team releases giant wetapunga to the wild.

The vets treat a native bird after swallowing fishing hooks, and the Zoo team are in the wilds of the South Island fighting to save a critically endangered skink species.

The vets treat an albatross that had been kept in someone's home for a week, and the Zoo team is in rural Auckland, supporting efforts to save an endemic bat species.

The world's first skink birth is filmed at Auckland Zoo, the vets treat an injured zebra and the zoo team hatch and release the country's rarest tern species to the wild.

Goliath Bird-Eating tarantulas come to the Zoo, the vets treat a native ruru and Zoo staff travel north to support important research on native skinks.

The vets treat a sick sea turtle, and Auckland Zoo teams are on Ponui island in the Hauraki Gulf supporting vital Kiwi conservation work using 3D printed research eggs.

Auckland Zoo vets treat a native Duvaucel's gecko, and Zoo experts travel South to the remote Takapourewa, Stephens Island, supporting important survey work of a very rare, endemic frog species.

Southern white rhinoceros Nyah moves to Australia, as part of an important international breeding programme, and the Auckland Zoo team heads south to support a vital kākāpō breeding season.

The Auckland Zoo team is on the remote Anchor Island in the Marlborough Sounds to support a record-breaking kākāpō breeding season