2017 media releases
View DOC media releases from 2017.

Fiordland

Date: 15 December 2017
The reclusive rock wren/tuke is on the rise in Kahurangi National Park due to our predator control programme, recent monitoring confirms.

Date: 01 December 2017
Campers and outdoor enthusiasts are urged to be fire wise this summer as warm, dry weather persists in the south.

Date: 09 November 2017
A formal complaint has been made against a group of jet boaters at Lake Alabaster Hut on the Hollyford Track.

Date: 08 November 2017
A section of the Routeburn Track is closed 8 and 9 November due to heavy spring snow.

Date: 25 October 2017
Reported sightings of one-legged weka in areas of Fiordland National Park have prompted concerns about incorrect, and illegal, possum trapping.

Date: 10 October 2017
100 mohua have been translocated from Anchor Island in Dusky Sound to the Eglinton Valley.

Date: 22 September 2017
DOC has appointed Aaron Fleming to the role of Operations Director for Southern South Island.

Date: 01 September 2017
The upcoming takahē breeding season is more secure than ever thanks to two new purpose-built enclosures.

Date: 01 September 2017
We are asking all boat owners and operators in Fiordland to be predator-aware after a rat was discovered on Resolution Island, Dusky Sound.

Date: 25 August 2017
Conservation Minister Maggie Barry has announced appointments to the Guardians of lakes Manapouri, Monowai and Te Anau.

Date: 22 August 2017
South Island tīeke/saddleback have been introduced to a new intensively-managed island site in Dusky Sound, Fiordland, in a bid to allow the overall tīeke population to expand.

Date: 01 August 2017
Upgrades to the popular Cascade Creek campsite will be completed in time for the summer season.

Date: 20 July 2017
An endangered Marlborough green gecko, a long-term resident at the Fiordland National Park Visitor Centre, has been stolen.

Date: 13 July 2017
Native species are on the rise thanks to intensive trapping and aerial 1080 operations across Fiordland National Park, latest monitoring results show.

Date: 26 May 2017
Twenty pāteke/brown teal have been released onto Resolution Island/Mauikatau in Dusky Sound after an absence of over a century.

Date: 11 May 2017
The once presumed extinct takahē are on the road to recovery, moving down two places along the threat classification system.

Date: 13 April 2017
A young kea was released back into the wild in Fiordland after vets treated his severely injured leg.

Date: 22 March 2017
DOC and Goodnature have deployed a network of self-resetting stoat traps on Great Island in Fiordland.

Date: 18 March 2017
Kākāpō superstar, Sirocco, will celebrate his 20th birthday ‘off the grid’ on his island retreat this week.

Date: 06 March 2017
South Island kākā have made an extraordinary comeback in a Fiordland forest since pest control started just over a decade ago, recent study results show.