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Funding for 'Forest to Firth' wetland restoration
By Jeff Neems, Communications Advisor When Peter Roberts looks out from his home overlooking the Firth of Thames, he can gaze across the internationally significant wetland he and his neighbours are...
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World Wetlands Day: Restoring Lake Whangape
By Jane Wheeler, Community Ranger How do we turn more than 50 years of degradation around and restore a huge murky weed-infested lake to its glory days? A good question to ponder on World Wetlands Day...
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Fiordland bat Diaries – The Ettrick Burn Part 4
With two species of native bat living in Fiordland local rangers undertake monitoring in order to protect and learn more about these special little critters. They are on the hunt for a new...
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Project Moturoa – "the best thing I've ever done"
School just wasn’t working for 17-year old Reann, but she was prepared to give a 10-month course for young Māori a go. Graduating alongside seven other students last November, she said it’s the best...
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Women and Girls in Science: Big, bold and beautiful
Today marks International Day of Women and Girls in Science. To celebrate, we are showcasing the fantastic work of wahine toa who contribute significantly to the mauri/well-being of the Hauraki Gulf...
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What your apple core can do to our native birds
What may seem like a harmless action could be negatively impacting our native species. You may be (unknowingly) contributing to our litter problem on public conservation land, simply because you’ve...
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Women and Girls in Science: Emerald islands and soaring seabirds.
This week we celebrate women and girls in science whose work is helping to restore the mauri/well-being of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park/Ko te Pātaka kai o Tīkapa Moana. Today we focus on the...
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Women and Girls in Science: The Pull of the Sea
Today we celebrate women and girls in science whose love of the sea has led them to specialise in a variety of fields, demonstrating the diversity of work in the field of marine science. From...
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Women and Girls in Science: He tānagta, he tānagta, he tānagta
For our final blog post on women and girls in science, we explore the relationship between people and the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park/Ko te Pātaka kai o Tīkapa Moana. The clue is in the word ‘park’, a...
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Our staff helping in Aussie bushfire fight
Thames-based Karen Ismay is among a group of Department of Conservation staff from New Zealand who have been spending parts of their summer fighting Australia’s raging bushfires. Australia has faced a...
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Fiordland Bat Diaries: Bat-flies
Local rangers in Fiordland undertake short-tailed bat monitoring in order to protect and learn more about these special, little native critters. But sometimes they are not the only little critter on...
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A national first – the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park turns 20
Twenty years ago today, New Zealand established its first, and only, national park of the sea – the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park/Ko te Pātaka kai o Tīkapa Moana. Its breadth encompasses the Waitematā...
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Tampons and tramping
DOC staff member I’ve got six or seven rational fears and about 900 irrational ones. On the irrational side there are things like killer seagulls, drop bears, accidentally driving into quicksand,...
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Marine Climate Change – Seaweek
Climate change effects are considered the top threats to marine ecosystems according to a 2012 study. The likely impacts from climate change on some of our marine species and ecosystems are relatively...
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Whio Journal: Saving our iconic blue duck
The whio, or blue duck, appears on our $10 note and the wild rivers of the back country, and not many places in between. As such, few New Zealander’s know whio exist, and most will have never seen or...
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History in the making – largest proposed marine network
The unique diversity of life in New Zealand waters is a taonga that belongs to us all – and Seaweek is a great time to remind ourselves of that! At DOC we’re proud to be a part of one of the most...
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When you've gotta poo
…when visiting and hiking on public conservation land. We promise poo isn’t our favourite topic to talk about at DOC, but as it happens, we’ve gotta put the word out there to keep the tracks clean —...
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Things weka take
Weka are known for their bold and curious ways, that extends to making off with people’s stuff as highlighted by this news story about a visitor to the Abel Tasman National Park who lost his wedding...
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Seaweek – What lies beneath?
Did you know New Zealand/Aotearoa is bigger than it looks? About 93% of it is actually underwater! Our total area goes 200 nautical miles out to sea from our coastline and 80% of our native species...
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Predator Free pathways: Policy and legislation
With the launch of the Predator Free 2050 strategy: ‘Towards a Predator Free New Zealand’, we’re doing a series of blogs about the pathways identified in the strategy which are going to help us get to...
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