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Nurturing sustainability storytellers
For 10 years now The Outlook for Someday film challenge has helped grow a generation of sustainability storytellers. The challenge gives young New Zealanders a voice, and enables them to tell...
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D-G Direct: An update from Lou Sanson
A very Happy New Year to you all. I hope you got to spend some time with your loved ones, enjoying Our Nature. I want to acknowledge all our staff members, volunteers, and partners around the country...
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Meet this year’s DOC Blake Ambassadors
The next generation of Blake Ambassadors are already contributing to DOC’s work this summer. This year the Sir Peter Blake Trust, in partnership with Antarctica NZ, the Antarctic Heritage Trust, NIWA,...
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Successful start to the year for our newest kakī
By Sam Haultain, Biodiversity Ranger The wind may have been strong, but the sun was shining as the first 19 juvenile kakī/black stilt of the current breeding season were released onto the Tasman River...
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Wellington’s Big Blue Backyard: Sirens Reef in Taputeranga Marine Reserve
Tracey Bates is a marine biologist working around Wellington’s marine reserves. Today she shares her experiences diving on the capital’s south coast. This story was originally published on the Scuba...
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Jobs at DOC: Doug Taucher, Biodiversity Ranger
Te Kuiti Biodiversity Ranger Doug Taucher retires on Monday. Read some of Doug’s recollections from his 43 years as a ranger. At work Wallaby control How long have you been a ranger? I was part of the...
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Tuku Whenua — gifting of treasured lands
Earlier this month at Tangoio Marae, the Crown fulfilled their Settlement obligation to return four reserves to Hapū represented by the Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust. Four days later, the Hapū gifted...
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Photo of the week: Government Buildings Historic Reserve
Her claim to fame is being the largest wooden building in the Southern Hemisphere, but Wellington’s Government Buildings Historic Reserve holds many other secrets to be uncovered on a free guided tour....
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‘The Crested Grebe’ glides to glory
By Susan Streatfield, Partnerships Ranger. Te Anau’s annual cardboard boat race attracts an extraordinary armada of entrants, as well as a merry mix of local, national and international followers. The...
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Sailing in Cook’s footsteps
By Kate Hebblethwaite, Community Ranger Retracing Captain Cook’s Dusky Sound voyage has resulted in some amazing discoveries. In November last year, DOC staff joined a Te Papa team in Dusky Sound to...
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Photo of the week: Harlequin gecko
Today’s photo is of a rare harlequin gecko/tukutuku rakiurae. This species of gecko is endemic to Stewart Island/Rakiura in the far south of New Zealand, where it was discovered in 1969. The harlequin...
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Muscles: the legend of the practical field ranger
By Anna Elwarth, Community Ranger Ian “Muscles” Read recently retired after working for DOC since 1987 — and a combined 52 years of state service. Ian “Muscles” Read At 72 his body is giving him the...
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Celebrate your connection to the sea
By Lee Barry, Community Ranger What could be better than a dip in the sea, a view of the ocean, or the sand between your toes? Celebrate your connection to the sea this Seaweek The ocean is so often a...
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Prison products proudly boost biodiversity
By Susan Streatfield, Partnerships Ranger What do predator traps, grebe rafts, translocation boxes, wētā motels and red tussock have in common? They are just some of the conservation products created...
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Happy Whio Awareness Month!
Whio Awareness Month kicks off today! It’s a whole month (1 – 31 March) dedicated to our endangered whio/blue duck. Whio/blue duck. Photo: Sabine Bernert This month is all about raising the awareness...
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D-G Direct: An update from Lou Sanson
By Lou Sanson, Director-General I would like to start by acknowledging everyone involved in two recent significant events. New Zealand’s second biggest whale stranding and our busiest fire season, with...
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Jobs at DOC: Fairy Tern Team
Come behind the scenes and into the jobs, the challenges, the highlights, and the personalities of the people who work at the Department of Conservation (DOC). Today we profile the Fairy Tern Team…...
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A fresh lick of paint for Raoul Island’s buildings
By Les Judd, Community Ranger Thanks to a beautiful new paint job, the buildings of Raoul Island now have their whites a little whiter, and their brights a little brighter – just like the laundry...
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Collect your Landmarks in Northland
It’s already March and our hopes for more sunny days are fading fast! So, what better time to head up to Northland and chase down some of that sun? While you visit you can also check out some of New...
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A season helping whio
By Jose Watson, Communications Advisor Whio are New Zealand’s river surfing blue duck. Despite surviving death defying rapids on a regular basis, they are considerably less robust on land. The female...
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