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Predator Free pathways: Knowledge, innovation and improvement
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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The Minister of Conservation on Predator Free
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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Predator Free pathways: Measuring, assessing and evaluating the difference we...
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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Predator free pathways: Whānau, hapū and iwi expressing kaitiakitanga
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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Predator free pathways: Eradication – can we do it?
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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Predator Free: Stoat control on a landscape scale
The development of a ready-made bait containing PAPP will be an important step forward in protecting native birds, lizards, and invertebrates in Aotearoa New Zealand. For many of New Zealand’s...
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Time-travelling trilobites have baby with horseshoe crab
Natasha Drury, a summer research scholarship student working with DOC on threatened freshwater invertebrates, Tom Drinan Freshwater Technical Advisor , and Jess MacKenzie share some thoughts about one...
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The Call of the Lizard Hunter
By Ben Barr, Science Advisor for DOC’s Lizard Technical Advisory Group Gaaaaaaaaah! [g-aaarh!]Interjection1. an exclamation used to express disappointment after you think you’ve found a lizard under a...
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Whio Journal: Catching whio on Boyd Stream
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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Bookable huts: A summer success
Mount Somers Track is a very popular 26 km circuit track located in the beautiful Hakatere Conservation Park, Canterbury. Due to the trail’s proximity to Christchurch and the relative ease of the...
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And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul.
Today is International Day of Forests. We celebrate the diversity and importance of our forests – some strange, others ancient, many young, and one commemorative – found in and around the Hauraki Gulf...
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We are the water, the water is us: A simple start to cleaning our waterways
Today is World Water Day. The theme this year focuses on water and climate change and how the two are inextricably linked. In this guest post blog, Senior Healthy Waters Specialist at Auckland...
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Rescuing a moho pererū/banded rail
A banded rail recently found dazed and confused in the Coromandel has been released back to its home after being cared for by a retired vet nurse from the Kuaotunu Bird Rescue Trust. It all started...
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Is it a takahē or a pūkeko?
For many years, two of New Zealand’s most treasured native birds have been misidentified – and for good reason, they have very similar features. Is it a takahē or a pūkeko? Who’re you calling a...
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Young Kiwi flouts social distancing rules!
Someone didn’t pass the memo onto this kiwi that social distancing be applied between kiwis not in your ‘bubble’. But to be fair, communication channels are pretty hit and miss on Te...
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Lessons in social isolation from a DOC ranger in the Northern Coromandel
Sierra Alef-Defoe, a ranger at the Fiordland National Park Visitor Centre, reflects on lessons in social isolation she learned as a campground ranger in the Northern Coromandel. I searched the...
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Fiordland Kiwi Diaries: Annual transmitter change.
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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Making more takahē: The work of the Takahē Recovery Programme
This blog post was written by Julie Harvey, a dedicated Takahē Recovery Programme ranger. What does it really mean to be involved in a “recovery programme”? For the Takahē Recovery team, we are in the...
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Let Nature In
Mā te taiao, kia whakapakari tōu oranga. Let nature in, strengthen your wellbeing. The internet has thrown up a lot of names to separate the periods before and after Level 4 lockdown in New Zealand:...
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Eagle Eyes
The sheltered waters of the Waitematā Harbour forms one of the arms of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park/Ko te Pātaka kai o Tīkapa Moana. At its narrowest point it is crossed by the Auckland Harbour...
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