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Date: 29 December 2022 A rāhui has been placed over the Cape Rodney-Okakari Point (Goat Island) Marine Reserve following a death of a man on Wednesday morning.
Date: 22 December 2022 The toilet and changing block servicing Te Hāwere-a-Maki / Goat Island and the surrounding marine reserve has been given a new lease of life with bright murals of taonga species painted on its sides.
Date: 19 December 2022 People visiting the Hauraki Gulf's 47 pest-free islands can help protect breeding and nesting birds by leaving their dogs at home.
Date: 29 November 2022 Leigh’s Omaha Cove walkway will remain closed after it was damaged by a significant landslide earlier this month.
Date: 16 November 2022 One of New Zealand’s rarest birds, the tara-iti/New Zealand fairy tern, has been boosted by a chick successfully hatching at Papakānui, North of Auckland on 13 November.
Date: 06 September 2022 People in Northland and Auckland are being urged to report sightings of Hector’s dolphins after a solitary Hector’s dolphin was spotted north of its usual range.
Date: 12 August 2022 Seven common dolphins from a pod of 10 stranded at Waiheke Island’s Whakanewha Bay have been refloated late this afternoon and were seen heading out to sea, DOC says.
Date: 03 August 2022 DOC is reassuring Waiheke Island residents that upcoming improvement work on a busy wharf will not impact on native kororā/little penguin.
Date: 01 July 2022 A striped dolphin reported washed up on South Auckland’s Kariotahi Beach on Wednesday evening had been beheaded by Thursday morning.
Date: 09 May 2022 A dead possum recently found on Great Barrier Island is thought to have come from outside the island.
Date: 26 April 2022 Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation More than 50 jobs are being created across Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland with the launch of three new Government-backed initiatives, Conservation Minister Kiri Allan says.
Date: 30 March 2022 DOC has granted authority for Kennedy Point Marina Development Limited to capture, handle and relocate kororā/little blue penguin at the Kennedy Point site, with stringent conditions.
Date: 29 March 2022 Public consultation on the proposal to establish a marine reserve at Hākaimangō – Matiatia (Northwest Waiheke Island) under the Marine Reserves Act 1971, closed on 20 March 2022.
Date: 14 March 2022 DOC has received an application for a marine reserve at Hākaimangō – Matiatia (Northwest Waiheke Island) under the Marine Reserves Act 1971.
Date: 04 March 2022 With eight tara iti/New Zealand fairy tern expected to fledge (leave the nest), it’s been the best breeding season since 2013–2014 for one of Aotearoa New Zealand's rarest birds.
Date: 03 March 2022 DOC is calling for any sightings of a beaked whale in the Hauraki Gulf after receiving a report of a stranded beaked whale was pushed back out to sea by well-intentioned members of the public.
Date: 10 February 2022 DOC has received a report of what could be a Māui dolphin with a rope around its tail at White’s Beach near Piha and is urging the public to be on the lookout and to report any sightings to 0800 DOC HOT.
