Date: 17 December 2014 Five hunters have been trespassed from the Kaweka Forest Park. This follows concerns raised by trampers, about their behavior at Te Puia Lodge in the Kaweka Forest Park over Labour weekend 2014.
Date: 10 December 2014 Source: Hawke's Bay Regional Council It may look like a load of old rope, but it’s hoped that a length of mussel spat rope will be the key to repopulating Lake Tūtira with eels.
Date: 18 December 2014 A major partnership of local and national agencies will see more than $6 million invested in conservation in Hawke’s Bay over the next 5 years.
Date: 12 December 2014 The Department of Conservation is calling for public submissions over a proposal to revoke part of Ruahine Conservation Park. This is to enable a land exchange application to be considered for the proposed Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme.
Date: 28 November 2014 Sixteen more Hawke’s Bay environment groups signed onto the Nature Space website at its regional launch last week.
Date: 06 November 2014 Source: Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust DNA tests on newly-discovered, nearly extinct plants have given researchers the most complete picture yet of how the critically-endangered kakabeak (Clianthus maximus, or ngutukākā in te reo) is clinging to survival on the inaccessible cliffs, bluffs and ledges of New Zealand’s wild back-country.
Date: 26 September 2014 The owner of two dogs found hunting and killing wildlife in the Ahuriri Estuary was successfully prosecuted recently.
Date: 23 September 2014 Following a successful prosecution of a Central Hawke’s Bay farmer, the Department of Conservation is warning farmers not to graze stock on reserve lands.
Date: 16 September 2014 Twelve men and women of Ngāti Pāhauwera descent are celebrating this week after graduating from the Māori Conservation Foundation Course.
Date: 16 September 2014 Local conservation projects were well underway, when the successful applicants of the Community Conservation Partnership Fund were announced last week.
Date: 13 August 2014 The new East Coast/Hawke’s Bay Conservation Board held their inaugural meeting and field trip in Napier last week.
Date: 13 July 2014 Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation New Zealand's largest-ever pest control programme has been given the go ahead to protect native wildlife like kiwi from a confirmed plague of rats and stoats, Conservation Minister Dr Nick Smith announced today in Maruia.
Date: 04 July 2014 Local Department of Conservation staff were shocked and angered on finding the remains of a New Zealand fur seal/kekeno, that had been shot and skinned, washed up on a local beach over the weekend.
Date: 07 May 2014 7 May 2014The Department of Conservation (DOC) are to increase takahē numbers in Cape Sanctuary, Hawke’s Bay, four-fold due to a transfer of six birds this Thursday 8 May.
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