2016 media releases
View DOC media releases from 2016.

Otago

Date: 07 November 2016
The public are asked to help DOC identify who is responsible for shooting a female sea lion/pakake on Otago Peninsula.

Date: 12 October 2016
Drones are a real risk to wildlife with drone activity increasing at the Northern royal albatross colony at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head.

Date: 06 September 2016
Moana, the northern royal albatross and star DOC's royal cam has left Pukekura/Taiaroa Head.

Date: 21 June 2016
The royal cam albatross chick at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head has been named Moana.

Date: 17 May 2016
Source: Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust
New Zealand’s largest conservation conference, Conservation Inc, begins in Dunedin tomorrow.

Date: 26 January 2016
DOC has set up a web cam beside an albatross nest at Taiaroa Head on Otago Peninsula near Dunedin.

Date: 15 January 2016
The first chick of the 2015/16 breeding season for the Northern Royal Albatross Colony at Taiaroa Head/Pukekura on Otago Peninsula was welcomed late yesterday.