Official Information Act responses and proactive releases 2025

Proposed disestablishment of Predator Free 2050 Limited and public consultation on the Predator Free 2050 strategy review 

Date: 17 October 2025

• Cabinet minute : Decision to disestablish Predator Free 2050 Limited (PDF, 143K)
• Next stages of the Predator Free 2050 programme (PDF, 363K)

Bendigo Ophir Gold Mine proposal

View OIAs and proactive releases relating to Bendigo Ophir Gold Mine proposal.

Trans-Tasman Resources Limited’s FastTrack Application – Taranaki VTM, 2025

Date: 25 September 2025

• Scientific Peer Review in Relation to Underwater Noise and Marine Mammals (PDF, 1,219K)

Commercial operator trip limits to protect Akaroa Hector’s dolphins

Date: 24 September 2025

• Marine mammal permit amendment – Operator feedback (PDF, 299K)
• Marine mammal permit amendments – Methods and statistics (PDF, 190K)
• Marine mammal permit amendments – Recommendation and decision report (PDF, 374K)

Charlie the kākā

View 2024-25 OIAs and proactive releases relating to Charlie the kākā.

Concessions/Exceptional Circumstances

Ref: OIAD-5583

Date: 17 September 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 247K)

Briefings on Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill

Date: 24 August 2025

• Briefings (PDF, 4,230K)

Katipo spiders and shore skinks - Forestry Beach, Te Arai, Auckland

Ref: OIAD-5517
Date: 20 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 239K)

Landings at Milford Sound Aerodrome

Ref: OIAD-5479
Date: 18 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 106K)

Modernising conservation land management consultation

Date: 15 August 2025

• Modernising conservation land management: Policy decisions - Cabinet paper, Cabinet committee minutes and regulatory impact statements (PDF, 48,477K)

Exploring charging for access to some public conservation land consultation

Date: 15 August 2025

• Exploring charging for access to some public conservation land: Policy decisions - Cabinet paper, Cabinet committee minute and associated advice (PDF, 6,363K)

Red Deer and Wapiti distribution in Fiordland

Ref: OIAD-5468
Date: 13 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 394K)

Herds of Special Interest (HOSI) – Wapiti HOSI proposal briefing

Date: 11 August 2025

• Briefing: 25-B-0190 Wapiti HOSI proposal proactive release (PDF, 583K)

Budget 2025 advice

Ref: OIAD-5261

Date: 8 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 305K)
• Items 1-20 (PDF, 5,946K)
• Items 21-57 (PDF, 9,679K)

Concessions – fees received from accommodation providers

Ref: OIAD-5454

Date: 8 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 221K)

1080 safety assessment - Marine Environment Pathway

Ref: OIAD-5445
Date: 7 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 208K)
• Attachment 1: 1080 Pesticide Information Review (PDF, 2,368K)

Fish and Game reform documents

Ref: OIAD-5325
Date: 7 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 251K)
• Items 1 – 24 combined documents (PDF, 49,229K)

Huts and connecting tracks

Ref: OIAD-5448
Date: 6 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 105K)
• Attachment 1: NATIS1 EAM Assets - points - huts (XLSX, 285K)
• Attachment 2: NATIS1 EAM Assets - lines - visitor tracks within 200m of a hut (XLSX, 389K)

International Visitor Levy (IVL) allocation of revenues for 2025-2026 year

Ref: OIAD-5409
Date: 4 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 219K)
• Attachment 1: Conservation IVL investment plan 2025-26 (PDF, 118K)

Kiwi population data

Ref: OIAD-5466
Date: 1 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 320K)

Subantarctic tourism fee increases - Ministerial advice

Ref: OIAD-5414
Date: 1 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 236K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 815K)

Subantarctic commercial tourism review and fee methodology

Ref: OIAD-5415
Date: 1 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 257K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 11,238K)

Subantarctic tourism permits - revenue allocation

Ref: OIAD-5416
Date: 1 August 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 257K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 1,191K)

Taranaki Crossing project, amount spent by DOC

Ref: OIAD-5433
Date: 31 July 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 138K)

Construction project data for projects over $10m

Ref: OIAD-5470
Date: 30 July 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 172K)

Environmental Defence Society (EDS) funding

Ref: OIAD-5360
Date: 23 July 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 263K)

Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill – advice papers

Date: 16 July 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 218K)
• Attachment (PDF, 6,545K)

Urchin culling in marine reserves

Ref: OIAD-5333
Date: 15 July 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 247K)
• Item 1: Technical Advisors Advice on destructive urchin grazing at the Poor Knights Islands (PDF, 532K)
• Item 2: Director Memo Decision on Urchin Trial Removal Programme (PDF, 892K)
• Item 3: Special Permit Application Form - Centrostephanus rodgersii (PDF, 6,536K)
• Item 4: SP731-2 Special permit Feb 2023 (PDF, 1,852K)
• Item 5: Summary of Poor Knights urchin removal experiment 1 - April 2023 (PDF, 712K)
• Item 6: Summary of Poor Knights urchin removal experiment 2 and 3 – April 2023 (PDF, 539.6K)
• Item 7: Update on the Poor Knights urchin removal experiment 6 month follow-up - November 2023 (PDF, 1,492K)
• Item 8: Director Operations Memo Decision on Urchin Removal at the Poor Knights (PDF, 1,032K)
• Item 9: Special Permit Application Form - Project 6 Phase 2 (PDF, 1,000K)
• Item 10: SP731-5 DOC 6 May 2025(PDF, 75K)

Work from home (WFH) policy

Ref: OIAD-5299
Date: 27 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 2,361K)
• Attachment 1: combined documents (PDF, 3,766K)

HPAI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) vaccine trial

Ref: OIAD-5279
Date: 26 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 248K)
• Attachment 1: combined documents (PDF, 27,427K)

Herds of special interest (HOSI) - Legislation to enable them

Ref: OIAD-5184
Date: 25 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 233K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 89K)
• Attachment 2 (PDF, 237K)
• Attachment 3 (PDF, 62K)
• Attachment 4 (PDF, 105K)
• Attachment 5 (PDF, 855K)
• Attachment 6 (PDF, 420K)
• Attachment 7 (PDF, 38K)
• Attachment 8 (PDF, 642K)
• Attachment 9 (PDF, 156K)
• Attachment 10 (PDF, 72K)
• Attachment 11 (PDF, 110K)
• Attachment 12 (PDF, 347K)
• Attachment 13 (PDF, 753K)
• Attachment 14 (PDF, 808K)
• Attachment 15 (PDF, 96K)
• Attachment 16 (PDF, 86K)
• Attachment 17 (PDF, 704K)
• Attachment 18 (PDF, 548K)

Waitai Raharuhi Trust - gate access

Ref: OIAD-5260
Date: 24 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 162K)
• Attachment 1: items 1–2 (PDF, 12,605K)

Technical Ecological Reports - Wairoa River, Tauranga Moana district

Ref: OIAD-5285
Date: 23 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 240K)
• Attachment 1: items 1–5 (PDF, 15,507K)

Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill – proactive release of Cabinet paper

Date: 19 June 2025

• Cabinet papers for proactive release - Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill (PDF, 1,007K)

Translocation of native birds into non-fenced environments

Ref: OIAD-5286
Date: 19 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 276K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 1,100K)

DOC Hut and Bridge Inspection Manuals

Ref: OIAD-5282
Date: 13 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 776K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 14,046K)

Tahr Foundation Community Agreement annual operational plan

Ref: OIAD-5239
Date: 13 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 127K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 5,892K)
• Attachment 2 (PDF, 5,910K)
• Attachment 3 (PDF, 8,555K)

NZSki Coronet Peak Ski Area Concession

Ref: OIAD-5185 and OIAD-5186
Date: 10 June 2025

• Response letter – OIAD-5185 and OIAD-5186 (PDF, 285K)
• Attachment 1: OIAD-5185 - Coronet Peak documents items 1–7 (PDF, 13,110K)
• Attachment 2: OIAD-5186 – Remarkables documents items 1–16 (PDF, 45,220K)

Research and trials of rodent contraceptives in NZ

Ref: OIAD-5281
Date: 6 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 208K)

Dotterel numbers - Rakiura/Stewart Island

Ref: OIAD-5196
Date: 5 June 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 208K)

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on its progress in achieving its targets by 2030

Ref: OIAD-5177
Date: 30 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 242K)

Mining Activities on Conservation Land (January 2024 - April 2025)

Ref: OIAD-5179
Date: 30 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 256K)
• Mining activities data January 2024 to April 2025 (XLSX, 22K)

Backcountry huts funding and management – Proposed changes

Ref: OIAD-5086
Date: 30 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 370K)
• Attachment (PDF, 21, 503K)

Poronui Station, Central North Island - Easement and Public Access

Ref: OIAD-5114
Date: 30 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 275K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 20,284K)
• Attachment 2 (PDF, 20,255K)
• Attachment 3 (PDF, 15,897K)
• Attachment 4 (PDF, 18,349K)

Mining - Buller Plateaux Continuation Project

Ref: OIAD-5169
Date: 29 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 234K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 1,001K)
• Attachment 2 (PDF, 3,643K)
• Attachment 3 (PDF, 8,318K)
• Attachment 4 (PDF, 8,867K)
• Attachment 5 (PDF, 1,754K)

North Taranaki Visitors Centre - Te Kotahitanga o Te Atiawa Trust

Ref: OIAD-5108
Date: 29 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 244K)
• Attachment (PDF, 2,187K)

Concession process - Abel Tasman National Park

Ref: OIAD-5161
Date: 27 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 247K)

Fast Track Approvals Bill

Date: 26 May 2025

• DOC Fast track proactive release material – Tranche 2 (PDF, 395K)
• DOC Fast track proactive release material – Tranche 3 (PDF, 5,684K)
• DOC Fast track proactive release material – Tranche 4 (PDF, 4,814K)

Contents Tranche 2:

• Briefing: 24-B-0254 - Recommendations on conservation approvals for Fast Track Approvals Bill (to support joint Ministers meeting 29 May)

Contents Tranche 3:

• Memo: 24-B-0345 Potential inclusion of highest value conservation areas in the Fast-track Approvals Bill
• Briefing: 24-B-0339 Broadening the scope of freshwater fish related approvals in the one-stop shop
• Talking Points: 24-K-0019 Cabinet paper talking points
• Memo: 24-M-0098 Meeting advice for 19 August Fast-track Ministers meeting
• Memo: 24-M-0098 Talking points for 19 August Fast-track Ministers meeting
• Briefing: 24-B-0424 Decisions on land management and rights of first refusal in FTAB
• Briefing: 24-B-0418 Policy and procedural matters for FTAB land exchanges
• Briefing: 24-B-0419 Expanding the scope of freshwater fisheries approvals in FTAB
• Briefing: 24-B-0434 Fast-track Approvals Bill: Electricity infrastructure on high value conservation land

Contents Tranche 4:

• Attachment A – Talking points provided to the Minister of Conservation for the Second Reading of the Fast Track Approvals Bill
• Attachment B – 24-B-0577: Fast-track land exchanges and reserves
• Attachment C – Follow up advice to the Minister of Conservation following Briefing 24-B-0577
• Attachment D – Further advice from the Department of Conservation on wildlife approvals following feedback from Ministers Jones' and Bishop's offices
• Attachment E – Advice to the Minister of Conservation on further proposed changes to Section 17DA
• Attachment F – 24-K-0032: Cabinet paper talking points
• Attachment G – Talking points provided to the Minister of Conservation for Committee of the Whole House

Fast-track water storage proposal - Klondyke

Ref: OIAD-5168
Date: 22 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, K)
• Attachment 2 (PDF, K)
• Attachment 3 (PDF, K)

Kiwi translocation to Waiheke Island

Ref: OIAD-5099
Date: 22 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 272K)
• Attachment (PDF, 12,145K)

Goldfields Railway lease and concession documents – Waihi

Ref: OIAD-5156
Date: 20 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 241K)
• Attachments – combined (PDF, 22,019K)

Kiwi translocation Waiheke Island application

Ref: OIAD-5100
Date: 22 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 270K)
• Attachment (PDF, 12,017K)

Herds of Special Interest (HOSI) – Sika HOSI proposal briefing

Date: 16 May 2025

• Briefing: 25-B-0097 Sika HOSI proposal proactive release (PDF, 3,331K)

Prosecution guidelines and data

Ref: OIAD-5134
Date: 16 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 223K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 2,123K)
• Attachment 2 (PDF, 163K)

Closure of Tunnel Beach Track, Dunedin

Ref: OIAD-5122
Date: 16 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 242K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 12,337K)
• Attachment 2 (PDF, 3,619K)

Kaiteriteri Recreation Reserve Board Appointments - further to OIAD-5062

Ref: OIAD-5138
Date: 16 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 163K)
• Attachment (PDF, 695K)

Mining - Oceana Gold Mine North Project information

Ref: OIAD-5135
Date: 15 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 180K)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) documents - 1 Jan 2024 to current

Ref: OIAD-5139
Date: 14 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 232K)
• Attachment 1: Kia Toipoto (Closing Gaps) Action Plan 2024 (PDF, 2,531K)
• Attachment 2: Healthy Work Survey 2025 (PDF, 121K)

Wildlife Act permits- Section 53 Wildlife Act authorisations

Ref: OIAD-5028
Date: 8 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 266K)

Wildlife Act permit section 53 – all permits issued for the killing of protected species 2015 – 2025

Ref: OIAD-5113
Date: 8 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 161K)
• Attachment: Table of s53 Wildlife Act permissions since 4 November 2022 with authority to kill (XLSX, 17K)

Wildlife Act permit section 53 - all permits issued 27 November 2023

Ref: OIAD-5115
Date: 8 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 163K)
• Attachment 1: Table of s53 Wildlife Act authorities since 27 November 2023 (XLSX, 30K)

Herds of special interest (HOSI) - Wapiti HOSI proposal

Ref: OIAD-5120
Date: 8 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 8,829K)

Note that the response letter also contains the follow up email and the HOSI document for release

Wildlife Act, section 53 authorisations

Ref: OIAD-5127
Date: 8 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 165K)
• Attachment 1: Table of Wildlife Act authorisations 04 November 2024 to 16 April 2025 (XLSX, 2,627K)

Waipoua forest - evidence of pre-Māori human occupation

Ref: OIAD-5172

Date: 7 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 197K)

Mining - Access arrangement - Buller Coal Ltd - Escarpment Mine

Ref: OIAD-5103
Date: 7 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 232K)
• Item 1 (PDF, 438K)
• Item 2 (PDF, 896K)
• Item 3 (PDF, 1,838K)
• Item 4.0 (PDF, 8,877K)
• Item 4.1(PDF, 11,305K)
• Item 4.2 (PDF, 20,197K)

Puketahā wildlife sanctuary in Wainuiomata, Wellington

Ref: OIAD-5070
Date: 6 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 295K)
• Attachment (PDF, 21,460K)

Predator Free Rakiura/Stewart Island establishment

Ref: OIAD-5104
Date: 5 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 143K)

Milford Sound Tourism Limited – Communications with Ministers and third parties

Ref: OIAD-5084
Date: 2 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 183K)
• Attachment (PDF, 3,832K)

Kiwi survey information for the Lewis Pass area

Ref: OIAD-5088
Date: 1 May 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 237K)
• Attachment (PDF, 5,074K)

Implementing New Zealand’s Biodiversity Strategy

Cabinet papers, minutes and reports.

• Seeking agreement to consult on the next implementation plan for New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy – Cabinet paper and Cabinet ECO Committee Minute (PDF, 1,200K)
• Draft Discussion document, Action for nature Implementing New Zealand’s Biodiversity Strategy 2025-2030 - Cabinet paper Appendix 2 (PDF, 6,300K)
• Briefing: Cabinet paper for discussion document on the next ANZBS implementation plan (PDF, 2,500K)
• Status report excerpt ANZBS, 14 Oct 2024 (PDF, 200K)

Pure Turoa Ltd (PTL) concession applications, advice on solvency

Ref: OIAD-5071
Date: 30 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 130K)

Campsite Pricing Review

Date: 29 April 2025

Advice to the Minister of Conservation regarding Campsite Pricing Review (PDF, 671K)

Includes:

• Status Report Update – 22 August 2024
• Status Report Update – 13 February 2025

Tongariro Crossing rahui

Ref: OIAD-5076
Date: 29 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 168K)
• Attachment: Emails and texts re Tongariro death (PDF, 1,996K)

Mining - New Talisman Goldmining, Karangahake, Site Reports

Ref: OIAD-5066
Date: 28 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 230K)
• Attachment: General monitoring report (PDF, 18,088K)

Briefings to MOC January - February 2025

Ref: OIAD-5043
Date: 28 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 326K)
• Attachment (PDF, 16,654K)

Funding for non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

Ref: OIAD-5064
Date: 24 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 266K)

Tongariro Crossing rāhui - legality and enforcement

Ref: OIAD-5068
Date: 24 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 160K)

Waipoua Forest Archaeological Investigation Records (1985–1988) – Northland

Ref: OIAD-5052
Date: 22 April 2025 

• Response letter (PDF, 280K)
• Attachment (PDF, 35,631K)

Mining - Permissions granted to New Talisman Mining Ltd at Karangahake

Ref: OIAD-5065
Date: 22 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 116K)
• Attachment letter (PDF, 643K)

Concession (easements) to Dalefield Water Supply Inc. (DWS), Queenstown

Ref: OIAD-4617
Date: 10 December 2024 and 19 December 2024

• Response letter 1 (PDF, 223K)
• Attachment 1 (PDF, 17,927K)
• Response letter 2 (PDF, 160K)
• Attachment 2 (PDF, 13,107K)

Further to OIAD-4617 Dalefield Water Supply Society Inc. (Queenstown) easements

Ref: OIAD-4939
Date: 18 March 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 249K)

Easement costs/fees - permission number 107337-OTH

Ref: OIAD-5060
Date: 17 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 159K)

Permission processing times - Section 53 Wildlife Act (Mining)

Ref: OIAD-5047
Date: 17 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 283K)

Permission processing times - Access arrangements Crown Minerals Act

Ref: OIAD-5048
Date: 17 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 156K)

Predator-Free Rakiura Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

Ref: OIAD-5021
Date: 17 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 474K)
• Attachment: Memorandum of Understanding – Predator Free Rakiura Project (PDF, 1,241K)
  

Public funding expenditure on Tourism, Public relations, Biosecurity for the last 10 years

Ref: OIAD-5041
Date: 17 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 180K)

Rakiura Track and Application for grants from Stewart Island Rakiura Visitor Levy Fund

Ref: OIAD-5009
Date: 16 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 299K)
• Application 1: SIRVL Fund 2022 (PDF, 4,564K)
• Application 2: SIRVL Fund 2022 (PDF, 896K)

Wildlife Act - Permissions granted under the act for Brynderwyns and Mangamuka roadworks, Northland

Ref: OIAD-5002
Date: 15 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 255K)
• Attachment (PDF, 17,230K)

Whitebait preservation communications with Ngāi Tahu and ECAN

Ref: OIAD-5025
Date: 14 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 208K)

Wildlife management methods used by DOC

Ref: OIAD-5044
Date: 11 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 191K)

Hauraki Gulf/Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill

Ref: OIAD-5042
Date: 11 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 188K)

Wildlife Act permits section 53 - information provided to Environmental Law Initiative (ELI)

Ref: OIAD-5019
Date: 10 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 275K)

1080 operation in Stewart Island/Rakiura and safety plan for dotterels

Ref: OIAD-5020
Date: 10 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 261K)
• Attachment 1: Consultation on effects cover notes (PDF, 823K)
• Attachment 2: Pukunui Community Hui Flyer (PDF, 823K)
• Attachment 3: National Predator Control Programme 2025 Aerial 1080 Operations in the Southern South Island (PDF, 4,362K)

Tongariro National Park Management Plan and UNESCO correspondence

Ref: OIAD-4987
Date: 9 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 145K)
• Attachment (PDF, 5,198K)

Pest management, ecological impact of companion and community cats and predator free islands

Ref: OIAD-5012
Date: 8 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 280K)

Ferny Gair and Teme River correspondence - Marlborough

Ref: OIAD-4957
Date: 8 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 161K)
• Attachment (PDF, 9,890K)

Wildlife Act - Permissions granted under the Act - NZTA Waka Kotahi

Ref: OIAD-4993
Date: 7 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 287K)

1080 operation - Waipoua Forest, Northland

Ref: OIAD-4995
Date: 7 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 238K)

Game bird shooting season

Ref: OIAD-4996
Date: 7 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 185K)

Specific reports/publications about dotterels (Departmental) - Stewart Island

Ref: OIAD-5010
Date: 4 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 219K)
• Attachment (PDF, 7,353K)

Lizards - RMA consent hearing, Protranz application at Whiterock - Wairarapa

Ref: OIAD-5018
Date: 3 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 2,126K)
• Attachment (PDF, 265K)

Red and black billed gulls nesting site, Christchurch city

Ref: OIAD-4991
Date: 3 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 241K)

Biopsy sampling of Hector's dolphins in Otago

Ref: OIAD-4994
Date: 2 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 253K)

Hector's and Māui dolphins incident database

Ref: OIAD-4989
Date: 2 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 180K)
• Attachment (XLSX, 39K)

1080 - Catlins 1080 drop immediately before the 'roar' period

Ref: OIAD-4980
Date: 1 April

• Response letter (PDF, 237K)

Females involved in wild animal control work

Ref: OIAD-4976
Date: 1 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 193K)

WARO information since 2020

Ref: OIAD-4977
Date: 1 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 329K)
• Attachment (PDF, 34,500K)

Mining - OceanaGold Land exchange application, Coromandel

Ref: OIAD-5017
Date: 1 April 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 256K)

Island-Ocean Connection Challenge (IOCC) agreement

Ref: OIA-4936
Date: 17 March 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 1,114K)
• Attachment (PDF, 1,652K)

DOC firefighters

Ref: OIA-4921
Date: 14 March 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 1,173K)

Great Walks costs and income

Ref: OIA-4951
Date: 13 March 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 326K)

Wildlife management reserves

Ref: OIA-4908
Date: 12 March 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 335K)

Stewardship land

Ref: OIA-4855
Date: 5 March 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 217K)
• Attachment (PDF, 1,393K)

Chateau Tongariro

Ref: OIA-4853
Date: 5 March 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 224K)
• Attachment items 1-5 (PDF, 2,007K)

Ruapehu ski fields

Ref: OIA-4862
Date: 3 March 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 280K)
• Attachment (PDF, 3,494K)

Section 53 Wildlife Act Authorities

Ref: OIAD-2511
Date published to website: 2 April 2025
OIA date: 16 December 2022

• Response letter (PDF, 211K)
• Attachment 1 (Items 1 – 39) (PDF, 21,099K)
• Attachment 2 (Items 1 – 39) (PDF, 20,567K)
• Attachment 3 (Items 1 – 39) (PDF, 14,567K)
• Attachment 4 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 11,257K)
• Attachment 5 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 14,458K)
• Attachment 6 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 13,319K)
• Attachment 7 (Items 1 – 42) (PDF, 16,620K)
• Attachment 8 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 22,105K)
• Attachment 9 (Items 1 – 41) (PDF, 15,805K)
• Attachment 10 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 12,933K)
• Attachment 11 (Items 1 – 22) (PDF, 5,476K)
• Attachment 12 (Items 1 – 24) (PDF, 3,280K)

Briefings to the Minister of Conservation regarding Predator Free 2050 Ltd

Date: 7 March 2025

• Briefing: 24-B-0312 Predator Free 2050 Limited 2024-25 SPE (PDF, 1,103K)
• Publication: 23-B-0312 Predator Free 2050 Limited 2024-25 SPE (PDF, 12,704K)
• Briefing: 24-B-0532 Predator Free 2050 Limited 2023-24 Annual Report (PDF, 874K)
• Briefing: 24-B-0554 Predator Free 2050 Limited draft 2025-26 LOE (PDF, 742K)
• Document: 24-B-0554 Predator Free 2050 Limited 2025-26 LOE (PDF, 853K)

Hut and track and campsite data - further to OIAD-3877

Ref: OIAD-4875

Date: 28 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 259K)
• Attachment 1: Huts (XLSX, 56K)
• Attachment 2: Campsites (XLSX, 24K)
• Attachment 3: GW Facility & Bednights (XLSX, 85K)
• Attachment 4: Non-GW Facility & Bednights (XLSX, 82K)
• Attachment 5: Facility Mapping (XLSX, 21K)
• Attachment 6: Tracks and Trails (XLSX, 189K)

DOC HOT line calls re little blue penguins dead and alive

Ref: OIAD-4866

Date: 27 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 181K)
• Attachment 1: Briefing: International Visitor Levy investment proposal - carpark charging pilot (XLSX 361K)

Conservation Board nominations 2025

Ref: OIAD-4873

Date: 26 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 187K)

Biodiversity monitoring - Stewart Island

Ref: OIAD-4820

Date: 26 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 227K)
• Attachment 1: Rakiura Vascular Plants Outcome Plans (PDF, 690K)
• Attachment 2: Stewart Island Rakiura Dune Restoration Program Report (PDF, 1,887K)
• Attachment 3: Otago University DRAG Report 2023 (PDF, 20,712K)
• Attachment 4: Report to Dune Restoration Advisory Group – Monitoring and Research (PDF, 73,380K)
• Attachment 5: Gunnera hamiltonii Information Compilation (PDF, 728K)
• Attachment 6: National Parks Status and Trend Report Rakiura National Park (PDF, 3,153K)
• Attachment 7: Park Level Results of Tier 1 Monitoring (PDF, 6,941K)
• Attachment 8: Rakiura Forest Health Report Memo (PDF, 821K)
• Attachment 9: Rakiura Monitoring 2010 Future (PDF, 14,479K)
• Attachment 10: MWLR Tier One Review of Key Findings 2023-2024 (PDF, 3,352K)
• Attachment 11: Monitoring the Ecological Integrity of the Indigenous Forests of Rakiura (PDF, 2,770K)

Outdoor gear sold by DOC, items and revenue, Rakiura DOC visitor centre days open

Ref: OIAD-4864

Date: 25 February 2025

• Response (PDF 291K)
• Attachment 1: MPVC Outdoor Equipment Feb 2025 (PDF, 603K)

Project Jonah MOU

Ref: OIAD-4836

Date: 24 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 217K)
• Attachment 1: Service Level Agreement between Project Jonah and DOC (PDF, 1,576K)

Cases of people caught fishing/collecting seafood in prohibited locations

Ref: OIAD-4821

Date: 21 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 271K)

Whio survey report Kahurangi

Ref: OIAD-4852

Date: 21 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 175K)
• Attachment 1: Survey of the Distribution and Abundance of whio in Kahurangi National Park (PDF, 2,423K)
• Attachment 2: Kahurangi Whio Survey Update (PDF, 1,750K)

Number of frontline staff and number of rangers employed by DOC

Ref: OIAD-4880

Date: 19 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 199K)

Pest plants of Kapiti Island document [weeds]

Ref: OIAD-4909

Date: 19 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 70K)
• Attachment 1: Pest plants of Kapiti Island and neighbouring islands: inventory, abundances and distributions (PDF, 6,859K)

Hunting and firearms - use of shotguns on PCL

Ref: OIAD-4834

Date: 17 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 254K)

Mt Ruapehu - advice on Concession Delegation - Whakapapa Ski Field

Ref: OIAD-4801

Date: 17 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 200K)
• Attachment 1: Documents (PDF, 2,919K)

Mt Ruapehu - Government funding and plans for Whakapapa ski fields

Ref: OIAD-4792

Date: 17 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 191K)
• Attachment 1: Documents (PDF, 2,919K)

Pest control/toxin use and monitoring - SSI Eglinton Valley, Fiordland, Stewart Island

Ref: OIAD-4818

Date: 13 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 217K)
• Attachment 1: Question 1 (PDF, 13,260K)
• Attachment 2: Question 2 (PDF, 7,511K)
• Attachment 3: Question 3 (PDF, 9,476K)
• Attachment 5 part A (PDF, 63,943K)
• Attachment 5 part B (PDF, 38,754K)

Marine Protected Areas/Reserves

Ref: OIAD-4817

Date: 12 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 141K)

Research Permissions Processing Times

Ref: OIAD-4863

Date: 12 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 184K)

Bulldozed gull nesting colony - further to OIAD-4794

Ref: OIAD-4803

Date: 11 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 283K)

DOC and Ngāi Tahu documents relating to Milford Sound Tourism since 25 October 2024

Ref: OIAD-4798

Date: 10 February 2025

• Response letter (PDF, 215K)
• Attachments 1 – 4 (PDF, 6,097K)

Mt Ruapehu - Whakapapa concession decision to publicly notify

Ref: OIAD-4835

Date: 7 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 91K)
• Attachment 1: Documents (PDF, 836K)

Threatened plant species reports in Dunstan Ranges - Central Otago

Ref: OIAD-4787

Date: 5 February 2025

• Response (PDF, 207K)
• Attachment 1: Bendigo Scenic Historic Reserves (PDF, 755K)
• Attachment 2: Ceratocephala pungens Summary Report (PDF, 4,284K)
• Attachment 3: DG Expert Evidence TKO Properties (PDF, 5,978K)
• Attachment 4: Ecology and Conservation Status of Three Spring Annual Herbs in Dryland Ecosystem (PDF, 13,314K)
• Attachment 5: Land Use Effects on Spring Annual Herbs in Rare Non-Forest-Ecosystems of New Zealand (PDF, 2,031K)
• Attachment 6: Otago Regional Council Plan Change (PDF, 2,149K)
• Attachment 7: Spring Annual Species Dunstan Ranges Bioweb Records (PDF, 600K)
• Attachment 8: Waenga Botanical (PDF, 651K)
• Attachment 9: Location Map (PDF, 1,898K)

Car park charging trials and International Visitor Levy (IVL)

Ref: OIAD-4682

Date: 31 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 173K)
• Attachment 1: Briefing: International Visitor Levy investment proposal - carpark charging pilot (PDF, 32,687K)

TrapNZ and funds paid to Groundtruth since 2014

Ref: OIAD-4772

Date: 31 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 117K)

Purse seine fishing vessels and protected species data

Ref: OIAD-4783

Date: 30 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 161K)

Chateau Tongariro - all briefings and Cabinet papers related to the future of the Chateau

Ref: OIAD-4805

Date: 30 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 129K)

Chateau Tongariro - all briefings and Cabinet papers relating its future

Ref: OIAD-4789

Date: 29 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 136K)

Avian flu - Alleged comment re outcomes for wildlife rehab of avian influenza birds - HPAI

Ref: OIAD-4788

Date: 28 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 162K)

Briefings to the Minister of Conservation regarding Predator Free 2050 Ltd

Date: 27 January 2025

Predator Free 2050 Ltd – Briefings to the Minister of Conservation proactive release material (PDF, 3,181K)

Contents:

• Briefing: 24-B-0102 – Predator Free 2050 Limited proposed approach to board appointments – 11 April 2024 
• Memo: 24-B-0114 – Correction to briefing on PF2050 Ltd Annual Report (23-B-0509) – 29 February 2024
• Briefing: 23-B-0509 – Predator Free 2050 Ltd Annual Report 2022-23 – 29 February 2024
• Briefing: 24-B-0012 – Draft Letter of Expectations 2024-25 for Predator Free 2050 Limited – 8 February 2024 
• Briefing: 24-B-0179 – Predator Free 2050 Limited – draft Statement of Performance Expectations 2024-25 – 3 May 2024 

Avian flu - facilities and protocols used for avian influenza vaccine trials (HPAI)

Ref: OIAD-4751

Date: 24 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 151K)
• Attachment 1: Animal ethics committee applications for avian influenza (PDF, 15,759K)

Māori Data Sovereignty Practices

Ref: OIAD-4757

Date: 24 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 276K)
• Attachment 1: DOC Data Strategy 2024 (PDF. 232K)

North Island brown kiwi translocation to Waiheke

Ref: OIAD-4793

Date: 16 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 229K)
• Attachment 1: Kiwi Recovery Group Advice - kiwi to Waiheke Island (PDF, 775K)
• Attachment 2: Kiwi Recovery Group Advice - kiwi to Waiheke Island (PDF, 791K)
• Attachment 3: Kiwi Recovery Group Advice - kiwi to Waiheke Island (PDF, 795K) 

DOC firearms safety and storage practices

Ref: OIAD-4722

Date: 16 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 271K)
• Attachment 1: Firearms SOP (PDF, 2,921K) 

Parakiwai Track closure - Coromandel

Ref: OIAD-4713

Date: 14 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 149K)
• Attachment 1–3 (PDF, 15,656K)

Bird Deaths Causes & Statistics in the Christchurch area

Ref: OIAD-4743

Date: 14 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 229K)

Upper Selwyn Huts - ECAN decision re Selwyn River Stop Bank

Ref: OIAD-4731

Date: 14 January 2025

• Response (PDF, 244K)
• Attachment 1: Collated emails - Selwyn River Stop Bank (PDF, 1,097)
• Attachment 2: Selwyn River Waikirikiri capacity - Issues and Options (PDF, 2,036K)