Date: 18 November 2024
Scheduled visitor safety works are temporarily closing the Windows Walk in Karangahake Gorge, but the door remains open for other stunning heritage experiences.

Date: 29 October 2024
‘If you have to go, know where to go’ is the message to visitors to Matatā Campsite this summer, as stretched wastewater facilities await town-wide solutions.

Date: 07 August 2024
A threatened dabchick/weweia has been killed by a dog at Lake Ōkāreka near Rotorua.

Date: 01 August 2024
DOC staff are appealing for information after 21 protected red-billed gulls were killed by a driver who allegedly drove their vehicle through the birds’ colony on Pukehina Beach late last month.

Date: 06 June 2024
DOC rangers in Whirinaki Te Pua-ā-Tāne Conservation Park have discovered a possible record-breaking roost of threatened long-tailed bats/pekapeka.

Date: 30 January 2024
People driving vehicles through the clearly marked and signposted breeding area of tūturiwhatu/Northern New Zealand dotterel at Thornton Beach in the Eastern Bay of Plenty are damaging the species, says Department of Conservation.