Dogs with a DOC permit for recreational hunting or management purposes only. Other pets on conservation land rules. Discover the Outdoors interactive map The campsite is beside Napier-Taihape Road ...

No dogs. Other pets on conservation land rules. Discover the Outdoors interactive map A short climb on an old dirt road leads from the car park to Diamond Lake. A shady nature trail then goes around ...

The latest report on New Zealand amphibians’ conservation status confirms higher numbers of Archey’s frogs than previously known, although they’re still at risk of extinction. An independent panel of ...

DOC has announced that bookings for the 2025/26 season for New Zealand’s Great Walks and other huts and campsites will open in May. Opening dates are staggered between 13 to 28 May to give people ...

The Government is investing $30 million from the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy to fund more than a dozen projects to boost biodiversity and the tourist economy, Conservation ...

Efforts to expand a wild population of takahē near Queenstown began yesterday with the release of 18 birds in the Rees Valley. After travelling from Burwood Takahē Centre near Te Anau and Orokonui ...

DOC is reminding the public of the critical importance of protecting tara iti (fairy tern) nesting sites following an incident at Mangawhai Heads in late December 2024, during the birds’ peak breeding ...

DOC will be holding public hearings on Whakapapa Holdings Limited’s concession application from 17 February to 19 February 2025. Acting Deputy Director-General Policy and Regulatory Services Ewan ...

DOC is exploring alternatives to its management role at Te Anau Bird Sanctuary/Te Punanga Manu following a review into the facility and its operations. There have been some expressions of interest in ...

A DOC-led spartina control operation will focus on an infestation of the plants in the inter-tidal areas of Coromandel Harbour later this month. Spartina is a fast-growing, salt-tolerant grass that ...

Starting from bare ground near Arowhenua Marae in Temuka, a Jobs for Nature project to support the Rakitata River Revival project now employs 11 people. Arowhenua Native Nursey was developed in 2021.

DOC plans to control a mouse plague that is threatening to destroy a small population of critically endangered Alborn skinks near Reefton using the toxin brodifacoum in bait stations. Mouse numbers ...