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View media releases from previous years.
Date: 27 March 2023 A new marine reserve ranger has increased efforts to stop illegal fishing inside Kapiti Marine Reserve and thanks locals for their contribution.
Date: 23 March 2023 The body of a Māui or Hector’s dolphin has been found washed up on an Auckland beach.
Date: 23 March 2023 A Manawatu-based Jobs for Nature project is restoring habitat in the Southern Ruahine to bring a North Island eastern brown kiwi population back to the area.
Date: 22 March 2023 DOC rangers are calling on the public’s help to report sightings of the pest fish koi carp, gambusia and rudd in Taranaki waterways.
Date: 20 March 2023 Westland whio have recently had their own census with some special dogs helping the enumeration.
Date: 16 March 2023 The popular and long-running Pureora hunting competition returns this year after a COVID-related hiatus.
Date: 16 March 2023 DOC is urging dog owners to keep their pets under control following the deaths of two yellow-eyed penguins/hoiho.
Date: 14 March 2023 DOC and Taranaki Iwi are asking for information after a native tākapu/Australasian gannet was found shot at Tuiraho (Stent Road), a popular surfing beach in Taranaki.
Date: 07 March 2023 The 2023 round of short-tailed bat/pekapeka monitoring has just been completed in the Pureora Forest.
Date: 03 March 2023 Seaweek, Aotearoa New Zealand’s national week to celebrate the sea, begins tomorrow, March 4.
Date: 21 February 2023 Anyone heading into the outdoors in Otago and Southland must show extreme caution to reduce fire risks in the current tinder-dry conditions.
Date: 17 February 2023 People are being urged to check tracks, huts and campsites are open before attempting to visit conservation land in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle.
Date: 15 February 2023 Work to rebury a sperm whale in Coromandel is expected to begin later this week as the district cleans up after Cyclone Gabrielle.
Date: 12 February 2023 DOC facilities throughout Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Coromandel, Bay of Plenty, Gisborne and the Hawke’s Bay have been closed to the public as Cyclone Gabrielle heads toward the country.
Date: 09 February 2023 Iconic Coromandel visitor spot Cathedral Cove has been temporarily closed to the public due to an ongoing landslip and rockfall risk.
Date: 08 February 2023 Eighteen juvenile tūturuatu/tchūriwat’/shore plover were successfully translocated to Portland/Waikawa Island.
Date: 07 February 2023 Several tracks are closed and campsites in the northern Coromandel remain unavailable as DOC staff continue assessing damage after January’s intense weather event.
Date: 07 February 2023 The rāhui in place at Ōpoutere Beach, the Wharekawa Harbour, and Wharekawa River following a drowning incident in January has been lifted.
Date: 03 February 2023 Research to help address the impact of the climate crisis on biodiversity is a notable feature amongst topics that received DOC postgraduate scholarship funding this year.
Date: 01 February 2023 DOC huts and campsites across the Coromandel Peninsula have been closed to visitors amid warning-level weather forecasts and treacherous driving conditions.
Date: 31 January 2023 DOC teams based in Auckland, the Hauraki Gulf Islands and Great Barrier Island have been responding to the extreme weather event.
Date: 31 January 2023 Thirteen juvenile whio/blue duck are now riding river rapids in Arthur’s Pass National Park, after being helicoptered to their new home last week.
Date: 27 January 2023 DOC is reminding visitors that a 'pack in, pack out' waste management policy for its campgrounds in the wider Whangarei area starts on 1 February.
Date: 25 January 2023 A citizen science project encouraging the public to report sightings of kekeno/NZ fur seals around the upper North Island has been extended into summer.
Date: 24 January 2023 Manaia man Pete Andreoli did a double take when he saw a weka wandering around a back yard in the little South Taranaki township.
Date: 20 January 2023 A rāhui has been placed over Ōpoutere Beach, the Wharekawa Harbour and Wharekawa River following a drowning and missing person search.
Date: 11 January 2023 DOC is asking visitors to Nelson Lakes National Park this summer to help to protect its pristine alpine lakes from an alga that causes mucus-like ‘lake snow’.
