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.