Image: Sabine Bernert | ©
Fur seal.
Issues
Read about some of the issues that DOC is involved with.

Read about Mautohe Cathedral Cove and our work to manage the site following the extreme weather events of summer 2022-23.

Read about an agreement between DOC and Te Here-ā-Nuku Trust to settle ownership of land in the northern South Island.

DOC has released a report by independent reviewer David Shanks, who was commissioned by DOC to consider complaints made about kiwi handling practices and a number of kiwi deaths at Cape Sanctuary in 2016/17, and how DOC managed Wildlife Act permits.

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On 28 April 1995, 14 young people lost their lives when a viewing platform above Cave Creek collapsed and fell.