In a career spent documenting global adventures through both lens and pen, Aus Geo Adventure senior contributor Mark ‘Watto’ Watson has explored numerous corners of the world, yet few places have ...

Concerted conservation efforts have led to the re-establishment of kura - a bird once common in the Southern Cook Islands - on the island of Atiu. The colourful lorikeet was hunted to extinction in ...

A new species of Collocalia (Aves: Apodidae) is based on six fossils recovered from a Holocene rockshelter deposit on Mangaia, Cook Islands. The coracoid and carpometacarpus of the new species, C.

Their people have spread far and wide across the world but for the first time they will be celebrating their culture and history in their adopted home of Rotorua. More than 160 descendants, relatives ...

Cook Islands Cricket is backing cricketing stalwart Tutai Toru as their man to make the key push to establish senior cricket on Atiu Island which lies 187km northeast of Rarotonga. Papa Toru is well ...

Anga flower (anga is the word for tapa in Atiu) of rubber tree bast (ficus elastica). "Stiff, dark rubber bark flower glued onto what could be a cleaned, dried hedge hibiscus stick (a small red ...