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Tūturuatu Telegraph: a new chapter and a special legacy with Pūkaha National...
The tūturuatu / tchūriwat’ / shore plover is a bird in need of urgent PR. With just 250 individuals left in the wild on a handful of predator-free islands, it is one of the world’s rarest shore birds,...
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Hiking the Routeburn Track outside the Great Walks season (May to October)
The Routeburn Track is one of the highlights of New Zealand tramping. It offers dramatic mountain views, alpine lakes and sparkling waterfalls. Most people hike the track during the Great Walks...
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Whitebait: swimming against the flow
By Sarah Wilcox Why our native freshwater fish need more help to get to habitat upstream. It all starts with an egg In the autumn every year, millions of fish eggs are laid beside rivers and streams...
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Maukahuka – the final step in making the subantarctic islands predator free
Lyndsay, a passionate member of the National Eradication Team shares how her work on island eradications helps protect precious native animals that call Aotearoa New Zealand home. By Nehara Pandey for...
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Ducktales Episode 1: Quacking the case on mallards and grey ducks
Perhaps you know your Daffy from your Donald, your Huey from your Louie and Dewey, but do you really know your ducks? Communications and Media Advisor Krysia Nowak takes a duck-dive into the shallows...
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Rats snapped devouring eggs of threatened fish
Written by Sarah Wilcox. The shock find came only days after the discovery of a cluster of shortjaw kōkopu eggs in the first ever documented ‘nest’ from Northland. Freshwater ranger Fern Donovan...
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On-the-job selfies for World Ranger Day
It’s World Ranger Day! Time to celebrate our DOC-green (and sometime orange) team doing their best to protect nature in Aotearoa. This is a window into conservation field work: selfie-style. By Jayne...
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“Our goal is to get all the rats off the island.”
An ambitious eradication project in the Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands. By Souad Boudjelas and Em Oyston, DOC. We were so excited when we first heard about the community on Palmerston wanting to...
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Innovating new tools and technology for Predator Free 2050
By Nehara Pandey for the Department of Conservation To reach the goal of Predator Free by 2050, we will need a smart set of tools and technologies. Roisin takes us on an exploration of innovation in...
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Supporting communities taking Predator Free 2050 action
Vanessa is a self-confessed nature nerd with a soft spot for birds. She shares how her work supports communities striving towards the Predator Free 2050 goal. And she gives us three simple ways...
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Removing lead in the environment to help kea
by Jose Watson The Kea Conservation Trust is at the tail end of a massive push to remove lead from buildings in kea habitat. We talked to the Project Coordinator Peter Fraser about how he got involved...
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The lazy person’s guide to taking action for nature: A Conservation Week how-to
This year’s Conservation Week will run from 2-8 September, with the theme ‘Take action for nature’. And since we know not everyone is quite ready to start backyard trapping or planting trees, we...
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Conservation at kākāpō pace
Conservation for the critically endangered kākāpō dates back 130 years to 1894, when Richard Henry first moved kākāpō to (then) predator free Resolution Island. Today, DOC’s Kākāpō Recovery Programme...
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Celebrating 10 years of West Coast Marine Reserves
Today we celebrate 10 years of West Coast Marine Reserves with a look at where they are, who looks after them, and what they are helping us discover. The West Coast has five marine reserves, which...
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Ngā kupu i te taiao – Words in nature
Ko tēnei te wiki o te reo Māori. It’s Māori Language Week and to celebrate we thought we’d profile some beautiful Māori words from nature and share with you their meanings. While we often hear...
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Meat the G.O.A.T
Queue long intro and eventually getting to the point. You don’t need to be genius to work out that food equals happiness. Just try sparking up a conversation with someone who hasn’t eaten in a couple...
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Kiwi Art Trail takes kiwi conservation to the streets of Te Ika-a-Māui
By Erin Reilly, Save the Kiwi The Kiwi Art Trail hits the streets of Tauranga on Monday 14th October. Photo credit: Matter Forget rattling buckets for loose change on street corners; there’s a new...
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Future focus critical for Doubtless Bay restoration
Erosion-prone banks, sedimented estuaries and waterways smothered with all the worst weeds. This is the confronting riverscape in Doubtless Bay on Northland’s east coast. Scratch below the surface...
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Meet the Whitebait
Freshwater Ranger Suze Harris is based in Hokitika and studies migratory galaxiids on the West Coast. Here she explains a summary of what whitebait grow up into, and what habitats you can find them...
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Ducktales Episode 2: The Teal Deal
Perhaps you know your Daffy from your Donald, your Huey from your Louie and Dewey, but do you really know your ducks? Communications and Media Advisor Krysia Nowak takes a duck-dive into the shallows...
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