2024 media releases
View DOC media releases from 2024.

Fiordland

Date: 25 October 2024
Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka joined tangata whenua from Ngāi Tahu and local community members today to celebrate the opening of New Zealand’s eleventh Great Walk – the Tuatapere Hump Ridge Track.

Date: 11 July 2024
DOC is urging people to stop feeding kea following a spate of preventable road deaths.

Date: 04 March 2024
New Zealand’s oldest known long-tailed bat/pekapeka – at 26 years – was recorded this summer as part of a DOC monitoring programme in Fiordland.

Date: 16 February 2024
Kiwi numbers are increasing in a remote part of Fiordland for the first time in the history of their conservation, thanks to recent aerial predator control operations.