Date: 20 December 2021
Visitors and residents enjoying the Tasman-Marlborough coast this summer are being urged to report sightings of the nationally vulnerable Hector’s dolphin.

Date: 10 December 2021
DOC is asking people to keep their distance from a leopard seal at Havelock Marina.

Date: 01 December 2021
Four Hector’s dolphins were found dead on South Island beaches in the last two weeks of November.

Date: 22 November 2021
An investigation into the deaths of 19 fur seals on the Kaikoura coast has revealed eight were shot. The deaths of the other seals are being treated as suspicious.

Date: 05 November 2021
Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura and DOC are concerned about the deaths of 11 fur seals on the Kaikōura coast that are being treated as suspicious.

Date: 06 October 2021
Source: The Office of the Minister of Conservation
Government support for a mountain-to-sea landscape scale project to clean up rivers in the Marlborough Sounds will open up dozens of new job opportunities, Conservation Minister Kiri Allan says.

Date: 30 September 2021
The Queen Charlotte Track in the Marlborough Sounds will fully reopen from tomorrow, Friday 1 October, just in time for the school holidays.

Date: 23 September 2021
The two end sections of the Queen Charlotte Track in the Marlborough Sounds are reopening this weekend after the DOC repaired storm damage.

Date: 22 September 2021
Fortunes are looking up for a tiny, jumping moth found only in Marlborough that had been feared extinct but has now been discovered in four new locations.

Date: 29 July 2021
The Heaphy Track is reopening tomorrow (Friday 30 July) after work to clear fallen trees and repair other storm damage, but the Queen Charlotte Track remains temporarily closed.

Date: 21 July 2021
The Heaphy Track is closed and the Queen Charlotte Track is only partially open due to damage from last weekend’s heavy rain.