Dogs with a DOC permit only. Contact closest DOC office to get a permit. Other pets on conservation land rules. This track leads from the end of Mt Fyffe Road, initially following poles across ...

The Government is delivering on its campaign promise to add feral cats to the Predator Free 2050 target species list to protect our precious native wildlife, Conservation Minister Tama Potaka says.

DOC is adding more huts and campsites to its booking system this summer to help manage crowding, give visitors more certainty for their trips, and support the ongoing care of these special places. A ...

The Department of Conservation - Te Papa Atawhai (DOC) is asking visitors to respect rāhui and track closures and give emergency crews space to respond to the fire in Tongariro National Park. The fire ...

Learn your first ten forest birds. The birds in this first course are ones that are most frequently recorded in forest bird surveys using the five minute bird count method. Work through each section ...

New research released by DOC today reveals New Zealanders care deeply about nature and want to help but aren’t aware of the scale of challenges nature is up against. The research was commissioned to ...

In an open letter to the world and on digital billboards, which went live overnight in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, DOC revealed it has “counted” all of nature and the total is 695 billion.

We're losing what makes us different. 28,000 of New Zealand’s known species are found nowhere else on Earth. Over 4,000 of them are threatened with extinction, or at risk of becoming threatened. Once ...

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Hakatere Conservation Park, in mid-Canterbury, is centred around the Ashburton Lakes District between the Rakaia and Rangitata Rivers. It covers nearly 60,000 hectares of rugged mountain country, ...