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New Zealand’s first marine reserve turns 30
Thursday, 23 February 2006, 1:19 pm | Department of Conservation
The Department of Conservation is celebrating thirty years of New Zealand’s first marine reserve at Goat Island near Leigh during Sea Week. More >>
Setback for Kapiti bat translocation
Monday, 20 February 2006, 3:05 pm | Department of Conservation
A ground breaking plan by the Department of Conservation to establish a colony of short tailed bats on Kapiti Island has suffered a setback with the deaths of more than half the bat pups destined for a second transfer to the island. More >>
Boaties unaware of marine reserve
Monday, 13 February 2006, 2:13 pm | Department of Conservation
The Department of Conservation is concerned about the number of boaties still fishing in Auckland’s newest marine reserve off Waiheke Island. On Waitangi Day DOC rangers talked to people in 20 boats all fishing within the 690-hectare Te Matuku Marine ... More >>
Mt Ruapehu Crater Lake Status Report
Friday, 3 February 2006, 10:12 am | Department of Conservation
Date of report: 2 February 2006 - based on a site visit and measurements taken on 27 January 2006. More >>
Fire danger closes Mana Island
Monday, 16 January 2006, 11:20 am | Department of Conservation
The Department of Conservation has closed public access to Mana Island from today until further notice due to the increasing fire hazard. More >>
Mana Island seabird colonisation plot thickens
Monday, 16 January 2006, 12:20 am | Department of Conservation
Click for big version DOC fauna biodiversity technical support officer Lynn Adams with one of the 40 fluttering shearwater chicks transferred to Mana Island yesterday. Photo: Richard Gill/DOC. More >>
Help keep pests and pets off conservation islands
Friday, 23 December 2005, 9:33 am | Department of Conservation
The Department of Conservation is encouraging people to get out and enjoy conservation islands in the Hauraki Gulf this summer but is asking they do their bit to help keep introduced pests and weeds and pets off them. More >>
Three NZ Artists Awarded Wild Creations Residencies
Wednesday, 14 December 2005, 2:48 pm | Department of Conservation
Three New Zealand artists - Darren Glass, Naomi Lamb and Monique Jansen – have been selected by the Department of Conservation and Creative New Zealand to take up Wild Creations artist residencies in 2005. Wild Creations is a partnership between the ... More >>
Injured Kakapo Returns Home
Monday, 12 December 2005, 10:59 am | Department of Conservation
The injured kakapo chick that has been convalescing at Massey University since being attacked by another kakapo earlier this year has been given the all-clear to return home. More >>
History brought to life with a bang
Friday, 25 November 2005, 1:07 pm | Department of Conservation
North Head’s rare disappearing gun will be fired to mark St Barbara’s Day on Sunday 4 December in what is only its third firing since the early 1900s. More >>
Reply to Muriel Newmans article
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 10:56 am | Department of Conservation
Fortunately for kiwi, Muriel Newman's report on the situation of our national bird in her letter of 19 November (Saving the kiwi) is third hand anecdotal hearsay. More >>
Friendly alternatives to pest plants
Thursday, 17 November 2005, 4:06 pm | Department of Conservation
Gardeners can exchange a weed for a native plant at the November 26 launch of a multi-agency book promoting environmentally friendly alternatives to pest plants and potential pest plants in the lower North Island. More >>
'Extinct' seabird drops in for dinner
Monday, 7 November 2005, 3:04 pm | Department of Conservation
A small seabird known only from specimens collected over 150 years ago flew inside a fisherman’s boat anchored off Little Barrier Island on Friday night. The bird is thought to be the New Zealand storm petrel (Oceanites maorianus), which was re-discovered ... More >>
Help us find geckos
Friday, 28 October 2005, 1:41 pm | Department of Conservation
ROCK CLIMBERS and other high country enthusiasts could again become the heroes of a survey of alpine geckos, designed to discover new species and new localities. The Department of Conservation, the National Parks and Conservation Foundation and outdoor ... More >>
Frog Week 05
Friday, 21 October 2005, 2:39 pm | Department of Conservation
As Kermit would say, "It's not easy being green", or in the case of New Zealand native frogs, it's not easy being brown and green in a world full of disease, pesticides, predators and shrinking habitats. In common with frogs around the world, ... More >>
8 Yr Old Wins Young Conservationist Award
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 9:43 am | Department of Conservation
Columba College, Year 4 student, Hamish Darling has been awarded the junior 2005 YHA Young Conservationist Award today for creating three card games to encourage children of his own age and younger to learn about the conservation issues affecting ... More >>
DOC disgusted by hoaxer’s idea of a joke
Monday, 3 October 2005, 10:26 am | Department of Conservation
The advertisement of a captured live dolphin on an on-line auction site earlier this week has turned out to be a 40-year old advertising manager’s sad idea of a joke a member of the government’s Wildlife Enforcement Group (WEG) said today. More >>
Pukaha Kiwi Chick First For Forest In A Century
Thursday, 29 September 2005, 4:26 pm | Department of Conservation
For the first time in over 100 years a kiwi chick conceived in the wild has hatched at Pukaha Mount Bruce. More >>
History comes alive at Mansion House
Thursday, 29 September 2005, 1:01 pm | Department of Conservation
Bread will be kneaded, butter churned and chamber pots collected during a ‘living history’ day at Mansion House on Kawau Island on Sunday 16 October. More >>
Asbestos being removed from Matiu/Somes Island
Tuesday, 6 September 2005, 12:12 am | Department of Conservation
Work begins on September 12 to remove and replace asbestos material from buildings on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour. The Department of Conservation has awarded a contract for the work to Palmerston North-based contractors Aldridge and Co. The ... More >>
