Learn about animals and plants in Aotearoa, including many you can’t find anywhere else in the world.

Biosecurity helps prevent damage by animal pests, weeds, didymo, and diseases like kauri dieback. The conservation status of our species is assessed according to their risk of extinction. DOC has ...

This walk gently winds its way through subalpine grasslands and scrub to the Mueller Glacier moraine wall. The track passes through a landscape that was formed in 1913 when a stream cut through from ...

Pick up the track on the right hand side of the road outside the Westland Tai Poutini National Park Visitor Centre, before crossing and then going under the Waiho River bridge. The track then runs ...

After heavy rainfall over Easter weekend, a bridge on the Hooker Valley Track, one of New Zealand’s most popular tourist destinations, has been closed by the Department of Conservation. The second ...

DOC has intensified trapping at a wild takahē site in the Greenstone Valley near Queenstown after four recent takahē deaths pointed to stoat predation. Ngāi Tahu and DOC first released takahē on Ngāi ...

DOC is adding more huts and campsites to its booking system this summer to help manage crowding, give visitors more certainty for their trips, and support the ongoing care of these special places. A ...

New research released by DOC today reveals New Zealanders care deeply about nature and want to help but aren’t aware of the scale of challenges nature is up against. The research was commissioned to ...

In an open letter to the world and on digital billboards, which went live overnight in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, DOC revealed it has “counted” all of nature and the total is 695 billion.

Great Walk ‘tasters’ are on offer this summer while the Tongariro Northern Circuit as a multi-day Great Walk loop is out of action to make way for construction of a new Oturere Hut. The Department of ...

The Department of Conservation - Te Papa Atawhai (DOC) is asking visitors to respect rāhui and track closures and give emergency crews space to respond to the fire in Tongariro National Park. The fire ...

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