Date: 26 November 2018
Up to 145 pilot whales have stranded and died on a remote beach on Rakiura/Stewart Island over the weekend.

Date: 02 October 2018
Source: Maritime New Zealand and Department of Conservation
A French cruise company and ship's Master have been fined $70,000 and $30,000 respectively following an incident in the Subantarctic islands.

Date: 19 September 2018
Kākāpō fans around the world can now take a virtual tour of the critically endangered parrot’s homes on New Zealand’s rarely-visited Whenua Hou / Codfish and Anchor Islands.

Date: 08 August 2018
DOC is reminding people to follow the four-wheel drive care code after some drivers damaged fragile areas with reckless off-road driving.

Date: 10 April 2018
For the first time in more than 150 years, a New Zealand sea lion/rāpoka breeding colony has established on mainland New Zealand, at Stewart Island.

Date: 27 March 2018
Ulva Island’s intensive trapping network has stopped a rampage of rats in their tracks this summer after five unrelated rodents were caught on the island’s coastal network.

Date: 21 March 2018
Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation
In a world-leading conservation effort, mice have been successfully eradicated from Antipodes Island in the New Zealand Subantarctic, Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage announced today.

Date: 07 March 2018
Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation
Two options to protect areas of ocean off the east coast of the South Island will be considered by Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash and Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage.

Date: 26 February 2018
Illegally grazing 380 cattle in a conservation area for two weeks in 2017 could cost a Southland farming company more than $100,000.

Date: 26 February 2018
Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation
The critically endangered Antipodes Island wandering albatross will be functionally extinct within the next 20 years unless the devastating decline in their population is halted, Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage says.

Date: 19 February 2018
Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation
The Million Dollar Mouse team are back in the Antipodes Islands to discover the outcome of one of the largest ever attempts to eradicate mice.

Date: 05 February 2018
DOC and Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust estimate there are 250 breeding pairs of yellow-eyed penguins/hoiho along the Otago and Southland coastline as their annual breeding season comes to an end.