Rats snapped devouring eggs of threatened fish
Written by Sarah Wilcox. The shock find came only days after the discovery of a cluster of shortjaw kōkopu eggs in the first ever documented ‘nest’ from Northland. Freshwater ranger Fern Donovan...
View Article“Our goal is to get all the rats off the island.”
An ambitious eradication project in the Palmerston Atoll, Cook Islands. By Souad Boudjelas and Em Oyston, DOC. We were so excited when we first heard about the community on Palmerston wanting to...
View ArticleConservation at kākāpō pace
Conservation for the critically endangered kākāpō dates back 130 years to 1894, when Richard Henry first moved kākāpō to (then) predator free Resolution Island. Today, DOC’s Kākāpō Recovery Programme...
View Article‘Pup-up’ visitor centre goes off
Random local visits Glenorchy Pop Up Visitor Centre. DOC’s Queenstown visitor centre is temporarily operating from Glenorchy between 13-26 January 2025. Yesterday we dropped in to see how it’s going....
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