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14 February 2025

Enough for a feed

A call for help to the public for any whitebait catcher diaries they may have, regardless of condition.

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Donate to DOC nature projects

Donate to DOC nature projects

We need your help to grow funding for nature. By donating to these DOC nature projects you can help protect endangered species and habitats.

Avian influenza

Avian influenza

Avian influenza (also called bird flu) is a contagious viral disease that affects both domestic and wild birds and is caused by avian influenza viruses.

Adopt a kākāpō

Adopt a kākāpō

Kākāpō adoptions are a special way to support the conservation of this taonga species. You can adopt a kākāpō for yourself or as a gift.

Proposals to modernise the conservation system

Proposals to modernise the conservation system

Have your say on the two discussion documents by 28 February 2025.

Media releases

Popular Great Walks bookings to open

Popular Great Walks bookings to open

DOC has announced that bookings for the 2025/26 season for New Zealand’s Great Walks and other huts and campsites will open in May.

Frogs impacted by predators, climate change

Frogs impacted by predators, climate change

The latest report on New Zealand amphibians’ conservation status confirms higher numbers of Archey’s frogs than previously known, although they’re still at risk of extinction.

$30 million to support conservation tourism

$30 million to support conservation tourism

The Government is investing $30 million from the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy to fund more than a dozen projects to boost biodiversity and the tourist economy, Conservation Minister Tama Potaka says.

DOC urges public support following incident near tara iti nesting site

DOC urges public support following incident near tara iti nesting site

DOC is reminding the public of the critical importance of protecting tara iti (fairy tern) nesting sites following an incident at Mangawhai Heads in late December 2024, during the birds’ peak breeding season.