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Meet our rangers: World Ranger Day
Tomorrow (July 31) is World Ranger Day, acknowledging the critical work of rangers on the front-line of conservation across the globe. For us, it’s a chance to celebrate the amazing things that our...
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Fiordland skink – what do we know about the species?
By Lynn Adams, Technical Advisor (Biodiversity) There’s scant information about many of New Zealands lizards, but for Fiordland skink we seemed to know quite a bit. But do we really? A black coloured...
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Fiordland Kiwi Diaries 20: Shy Lake’s second season
We’re on the front lines of the Save Our Iconic Kiwi initiative. This is the twentieth in a series following the work being done to save the Fiordland tokoeka(kiwi). Our ranger Tim and his team have...
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Monitoring our marine reserves: Different sights to see – Octopus invasion?
We catch up with Tom MacTavish and Tom Brough, Marine Rangers, undertaking monitoring at Banks Peninsula’s marine reserves. This is the first blog in the second season of monitoring, following the...
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7 names our Royal Cam chick could’ve had
Recently we announced this season’s Royal Cam albatross chick would be named Karere, meaning messenger or ambassador in te reo Māori. If you’re new to Royal Cam – where have you been?! This is a...
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Our top ten picks on how to get involved in Conservation Week this year
Conservation Week starts this Saturday 14th September and we’ve put together a list of our top ten ideas and activities, from all around the country, that you and your family can do to get involved...
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Look out for tagged fish at Kapiti
A new project to find out more about the fish around Kapiti Island is using tags to track their movements. It relies on people reporting any tagged fish they catch – and ideally letting them go again....
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Te Tapuwae o Rongokako Marine Reserve
Marine reserves are one of New Zealand Aotearoa’s special protected places where ecosystems are left to thrive naturally, and this Conservation Week we’re checking out Te Tapuwae o Rongokako on the...
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Celebrating 50 years of Conservation Week. How far we’ve come since 1969.
New Zealand is known globally for our efforts in conservation. We’re nowhere near done, but we’ve made considerable progress to protect our native species and bring them back from the brink of...
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Easy ways to get involved in conservation moving forward
Now that we’re at the pointy end of Conservation Week 2019, your involvement and dedication to conservation doesn’t have to end here. Conservation is a year-round activity – and we’ve come up with...
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Here’s what you got up to during Conservation Week 2019
And what a Conservation Week it was! This year marked the 50th anniversary of the first Conservation Week in 1969 – communities banded together to clean up our beaches, families headed out into the...
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World Maritime Day “Empowering Women in the Maritime Community”
This Thursday just gone was World Maritime Day and what better way of celebrating the theme: “Empowering Women in the Maritime Community”, than honouring two people, devoted to restoring the health of...
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Rakiura Community goes high-tech with pest control
The Stewart Island/Rakiura Community and Environment Trust (SIRCET) first adopted DOC’s Walk the Line smart phone trapping app about three years ago for its 210-hectare Halfmoon Bay Habitat...
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On the topic of fish
Estuarine triplefin . : Vincent Zintzen It’s DOC’s job to care for nature And nature covers a lot. Fish, birds, reptiles, bats, marine mammals and invertebrates; plus 8.7 million hectares of land. If...
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Conservation on the Paparoa Track
If you’re hiking or biking the Paparoa Track, keep your eyes open. And not just for the stunning views – many rare and wonderful native species live around the Paparoa Track. The Paparoa National Park...
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Alternative Biking Option for the Paparoa Track
The Paparoa Track, New Zealand’s 10th Great Walk, opens on 1 December 2019. It’s already proving popular and bookings are filling up fast. Moonlight Tops Hut, the middle hut on the track, now has...
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Behind-the-Scenes: Kākā return to the Abel Tasman coast
Kākā flying over the Bark Bay/Wairima estuary or chattering in the trees have become a new eye-catching spectacle on the Abel Tasman National Park coast. This spring, 24 kākā were released there as...
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Fiordland Kiwi Diaries: Karen Andrew tokoeka chicks.
We’re on the front lines of the Save Our Iconic Kiwi initiative. Our ranger Tim and his team have been studying the population of kiwi at Shy Lake to find out how to best protect them from predators...
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The best memes of Bird of the Year 2019
It’s a fierce fight each year for which native bird will be crowned the top of the flock. 2019 is no different with the campaign efforts growing larger and bird bickering louder than ever. With a new...
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Richard Henry’s legacy lives on
Today marks the 90th anniversary of the death of conservationist Richard Henry who pioneered moving endangered native birds to island sanctuaries, to save them from extinction, more than 120 years...
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