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Te Ara Kākāriki: Creating a green corridor across the Canterbury Plains
Te Ara Kākāriki is on a mission to increase biodiversity throughout Canterbury. To do this, they are working with landowners to create a corridor of linked areas of native plantings that reaches from...
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Kiwi Tracking Tech: The ins and outs of radio tracking
Finding kiwi can be a real mission. But thanks to some super smart tech, tracking kiwi is now more of a science than a guessing game. In this blog post, we explore DOC’s history of radio tracking, how...
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Finding the fish that swam with dinosaurs
Below the surface of Aotearoa New Zealand’s rivers swim numerous species of unique, mysterious fish. Today we’re zooming in on a precious, unusual, and poorly understood native freshwater fish, known...
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DOC’s famous trapping guide is back – and onto the 3rd edition
Written by Vanessa Mander, DOC’s Predator Free 2050 Communities Advisor. Life as a ranger means that you are at the front line and members of the public see us as a trusted source of best practice...
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Celebrating 20 years of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest island eradication of...
We’re celebrating 20 years of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest predator free project to-date. Hear from a former DOC ranger who experienced the world first rat eradication as he shares the story of...
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Celebrating 20 years of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest island eradication of...
What the next 20 years of predator free islands hold. In this two-part series, we’re celebrating 20 years of Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest predator free project to-date. Looking to the future, we...
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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...
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“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...
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Conservation 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...
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‘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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