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Date: 23 December 2010 Minister of Conservation Hon Kate Wilkinson today announced the appointments to the Northland Conservation Board.
Date: 20 December 2010 Lots of people enjoy seeing the dolphins, but they are wild animals and really do need their time out from people especially during the holidays. Find out how boaties in the Bay can help dolphins with a few simple courtesies.
Date: 20 December 2010 DOC needs the public’s help to protect the special treasures of the Bay of Islands. Here are some tips to help all of us enjoy a cracker summer in the Bay.
Date: 20 December 2010 Three Year Nine Springbank School students have created three larger-than-life size animal and bird costumes to help Project Island Song.
Date: 20 December 2010 The Bay of Islands Refuse Barge for boaties visiting the Bay of Islands this summer is back on the water from 23 December 2010 to 8 February 2011 and will be moored off the eastern end of Moturua Island.
Date: 14 December 2010 For the second year in a row, Bay of Islands’ Department of Conservation staff and Project Island Song volunteers will be giving out bags of goodies to local and visiting boaties to the Bay of Islands.
Date: 06 December 2010 Scores of little blue penguins have been washing up on Whangarei’s eastern beaches.
Date: 01 December 2010 A group of up to 10 motor bikers, believed to be from the Kaitaia area, are under investigation by DOC following reports that they sped along tracks, campgrounds and rest areas, including Cape Reinga, during a day of reckless mayhem.
Date: 30 November 2010 Minster of Conservation Kate Wilkinson and Associate Minister of Maori Affairs Georgina Te Heuheu welcomed the first graduation of 14 Maori cadets from an intensive conservation training programme.
Date: 26 November 2010 Increasing numbers of community groups and landowners throughout the eastern Bay of Islands (Ipipiri) are getting involved in stoat and rat trapping programmes on the mainland facing the islands of the eastern Bay.
Date: 12 November 2010 DOC is consulting on a sustainable management proposal for the Ruakaka Wildlife Refuge that aims to balance the protection of native species and habitats with the impacts of recreational use and population growth.
Date: 27 October 2010 Local and overseas fishers visiting the Bay of Islands are already helping Project Island Song – the pest-free islands in the eastern Bay of Islands - by using a tailor-made Ministry of Fisheries fish measurement guideline sticker.
Date: 19 October 2010 David Mules, DOC Bay of Islands' newly appointed Community Relations Programme Manager has a strong community relations background working for DOC in Dunedin. Formerly, David was a teacher and principal at Panguru and Broadwood Area Schools and knows the north well.
Date: 13 October 2010 The Department of Conservation has begun to survey important natural areas within a portion of the Rodney area known as the Rodney Ecological District.
Date: 06 October 2010 Hundreds of Northland brown kiwi are under threat from a pair of dogs wandering around the Aponga area, north-west of Whangarei.
Date: 04 October 2010 There have been no further sightings of an entangled humpback whale, which was last seen in the Bay of Islands around 11 am on 29 September.
Date: 30 September 2010 An early morning search for an entangled humpback whale in the Bay of Islands has been postponed due to worsening weather conditions.
Date: 29 September 2010 Department of Conservation staff received reports of another entangled humpback whale, just hours before freeing one off the Doubtless Bay coast, in the Far North.
Date: 29 September 2010 At 3.30pm this afternoon DOC staff were able to cut free debris wrapped around the midriff and tail of a 12-metre humpback whale that they have been working with since 8.30 this morning.
Date: 29 September 2010 Attempts to free an entangled humpback whale that was spotted in Doubtless Bay, Northland, yesterday continue.
Date: 28 September 2010 Department of Conservation staff are using a boat and a plane to try and locate a humpback whale apparently entangled in rope, spotted by a boatie off the coast of Doubtless Bay this morning.
Date: 24 September 2010 It’s taken three exhausting days but the battle to save the survivors of a pod of stranded pilot whales in the Far North has finally ended with fourteen whales swimming back out to sea.
Date: 24 September 2010 24 whales, part of a pod of pilot whales that stranded at Spirits Bay in the Far North on Wednesday morning, have been transported 50km south to Rarawa beach, in an attempt to refloat them.
Date: 24 September 2010 24 stranded pilot whales are close to beginning their journey by truck from Spirits Bay to Rarawa Beach in an attempt to give them a chance to be re-floated successfully later this afternoon.
Date: 24 September 2010 The 24 pilot whales stranded at Spirits Bay will be moved by truck and trailer units later today to Rarawa Beach.
Date: 23 September 2010 “All the help we can get” is the plea from DOC for tomorrow’s planned whale re-float in the Far North.
Date: 23 September 2010 Rescue efforts are focused on the logistical challenges of saving the 24 whales still alive at Spirits Bay in the Far North.
Date: 23 September 2010 Follow DOC's rescue efforts to save a pod of pilot whales stranded yesterday at Spirits Bay, approximately 90km north of Kaitaia.
Date: 22 September 2010 Department of Conservation staff in the Far North are today in the throes of coordinating efforts to save a pod of pilot whales stranded at Spirits Bay, approximately 90km north of Kaitaia.
Date: 26 August 2010 A rescued Far North kiwi chick has been successfully returned to his home thanks to the dedicated local BNZ Save the Kiwi and Whakaangi Landcare Trust team.
Date: 24 August 2010 Read updates on the mass whale stranding in the Far North, where 58 pilot whales were found stranded on a remote Far North beach.
Date: 20 August 2010 58 pilot whales have been found stranded on a remote Far North beach this morning.
Date: 17 August 2010 The Department of Conservation’s Whangarei Area Office in partnership with the Ngatiwai Trust Board have started planning an eradication operation to remove kiore (pacific rats) off Taranga (Hen) Island next winter.
Date: 05 August 2010 The invasive garden tree Taiwan cherry is out in flower right now! Its blossoms have spread a deep pink through Whangarei city and into surrounding forests.
Date: 03 August 2010 Some of Northland’s most spectacular natural features are highlighted in a new report on the natural features of the Manaia Ecological District.
Date: 03 August 2010 DOC advises people concerned about seals that, unless a seal is at danger from being attacked by a dog, the best policy is to leave them be.
Date: 12 July 2010 An historic naval site on Moturua Island in the Bay of Islands is ship-shape after a clean-up by a DOC led crew.
Date: 02 June 2010 Bay of Islands school children have been taking part in a scientific experiment which is directly helping Project Island Song’s vision to restore the islands of the eastern Bay of Islands (Ipipiri).
Date: 25 May 2010 In a landmark ceremony, DOC and the Ngatiwai Trust Board signed an agreement for the management of two of the Marotere (Chicken) Islands to be undertaken by the Trust Board and that they are jointly planning to eradicate kiore (rats) off Taranga (Hen) Island.
Date: 27 April 2010 Rare and endangered birds are already returning to the now pest-free islands of Ipipiri (Eastern Bay of Islands) following Project Island Song pest control operations.
Date: 12 April 2010 A clean-up of eleven eastern Bay of Islands’ island beaches as a belated part of Seaweek 2010 was highly successful.
Date: 16 March 2010 Hunters proposing to take dogs into Puketi and Omahuta forests now need a kiwi aversion certificate to receive a new hunting permit. The initiative is part of the Department of Conservation’s campaign to protect adult Northland kiwi from their major threat – dogs.
Date: 02 March 2010 The Bay of Islands diving community and local residents are being called upon to take the plunge as volunteers during Seaweek 2010 on Friday 12 March and clean-up marine and shoreline debris.
Date: 23 February 2010 Kennedia rubicunda, commonly known as dusky coral pea vine comes from Eastern Australia. It grows quickly and can suppress native species. It's under regular DOC surveillance in Northland to prevent it from establishing.
Date: 11 February 2010 Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson has welcomed today's decision by the New Zealand Conservation Authority to kick off the formal process that could lead to a National Park in Northland.
Date: 04 February 2010 Fires around Northland in recent weeks are all under investigation. The three fires, at Ruakaka, Waikare and Lake Ohia, occurred during an ongoing fire ban around the region.
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