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Date: 23 December 2013 Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation Ninety community groups are to receive $3.6 million in Government funding to support conservation projects throughout the country, Conservation Minister Dr Nick Smith announced today.
Date: 12 December 2013 Pest control by the West Matukituki conservation project is even more crucial now a beech mast is predicted next year.
Date: 11 September 2013 The University of Otago’s Canoe Club is to take to the water to control invasive weeds in a 315ha privately-owned wetland on the Taieri Plain.
Date: 06 September 2013 Conservation Week from 8-15 September 2013 aims to encourage people from all walks of life to get involved in conservation and find out how they can help protect and enjoy our natural environment.
Date: 09 August 2013 The Otago Peninsula Trust and the Department of Conservation are calling for nominations for the Toroa Award.
Date: 09 August 2013 The Department of Conservation (DOC) is encouraging more people to hunt in the Caples valley in a bid to reduce fallow deer numbers.
Date: 09 August 2013 The Department of Conservation (DOC) wants to know if you think Otago‘s coast needs protecting.
Date: 06 August 2013 The Department of Conservation (DOC) has identified the Taieri Scroll Plain, Nokomai patterned mire and Waihola-Waipori wetlands in its draft Otago Conservation Management Strategy (CMS) as areas worthy of international recognition.
Date: 26 June 2013 The Department of Conservation (DOC) is asking the public to have their say on its management of recreation and our natural and historic heritage in the south and eastern South Island.
Date: 13 June 2013 Queenstown Climbing Club members are doing more than scaling rock walls in the Wye Creek area.
Date: 10 June 2013 The Department of Conservation (DOC) has replaced a bridge on the Routeburn Track to cater for increased numbers of trampers using the track.
Date: 23 May 2013 The whitebait fishery in the Lower Clutha River/Mata-Au is starting to improve due to a whitebait enhancement project by the Department of Conservation (DOC) and Contact Energy.
Date: 17 May 2013 The survival chances of one of New Zealand’s most endangered lizards has taken a turn for the better with a new sponsorship by Auckland Zoo aimed at protecting Otago skinks in the Grandview Range, near Wanaka.
Date: 16 May 2013 A Department of Conservation project to protect a rare ecosystem near Queenstown is to receive a helping hand from the local climbing club.
Date: 02 May 2013 The Greenstone Caples Track is safer and more accessible to a wider range of people now a ten-year upgrade project by the Department of Conservation nears completion.
Date: 02 May 2013 Routeburn Falls hut on the Routeburn Track will be closed from 13-27 May 2013 to allow painting of the hut interior.
Date: 30 April 2013 The first stage of the Air New Zealand-backed Routeburn Valley Restoration Plan has been completed with the installation of 38 km of stoat traps.
Date: 24 April 2013 Routeburn Falls Hut on the Routeburn Track will be closed from 13-27 May 2013 to allow painting of the hut interior.
Date: 14 February 2013 Coastal Otago Area Office Programme Manager Biodiversity Assets David Agnew, Ranger Mel Young and Programme Manager Community Relations Cheryl Pullar have been in crisis mode during the past fortnight, with the tally of dead yellow-eyed penguins reaching 48 on Otago Peninsula.
Date: 30 January 2013 The current spell of hot weather is taking its toll on the Northern Royal albatross colony at Taiaroa Head, and sprinkler systems are being deployed to cool heat stressed birds.
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