Enter the 2025 National Wild Goat Hunting Competition. With over $70,000 in prizes to be won across multiple categories, there's something for everyone.
It’s World Ranger Day! Time to celebrate our team doing their best to protect nature in Aotearoa. This is a window into conservation field work: selfie-style.
Conservation Week runs from 1 to 7 September 2025. It’s a great opportunity to do something good for nature, and show others how they can too.
An international report, led by a DOC scientist, warns the world is on track to lose even more of its wetlands – but solutions exist.
DOC’s Customer Service Centre has revealed the top wildlife-related queries flooding its inbox and phone lines this year.
Kiwis heading for warmer destinations for their mid-winter breaks are being urged to check the CITES rules if they plan to return to New Zealand with tropical trinkets.
After receiving over 150 submissions, DOC has released a pricing proposal for paid car parking at two busy tourism sites in Te Waipounamu/South Island today.
A woman who took photographs of herself illegally taking several dogs into Tongariro National Park has been given a $400 infringement notice for her “blatant disregard” of the law.
A karakia rang out across the Pouākai Range yesterday morning as representatives from Ngā Mahanga a Tāiri hapū blessed the new Pouākai Hut.
Unleashing economic growth on one third of New Zealand’s land will create jobs and increase wages across the country, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Conservation Minister Tama Potaka announced at the National Party Conference in Christchurch today.