Date: 29 December 2025
The first pakake pup of the Otago/New Zealand sea lion breeding season has officially been born, DOC has announced.

Date: 06 November 2025
The first pukunui/southern New Zealand dotterel chicks of the breeding season have hatched on Rakiura/Stewart Island.

Date: 15 October 2025
Predator control on Rakiura/Stewart Island has successfully cleared out feral cats from important pukunui/Southern New Zealand dotterel habitat in time for the breeding season.

Date: 28 August 2025
The dead stoat unexpectedly found on stoat-free Rakiura/Stewart Island last month was likely transported there from the mainland, DOC says.

Date: 26 August 2025
One of New Zealand’s most threatened bird species will have a better chance at breeding this year following the completion of an aerial predator control operation last week.

Date: 22 July 2025
A dead stoat found in the middle of a Rakiura/Stewart Island track is concerning, says Department of Conservation Southern South Island Director of Operations Aaron Fleming.

Date: 06 May 2025
Source: Department of Conservation and New Zealand Nature Fund
Donations from people all over New Zealand are helping efforts to keep pukunui/southern New Zealand dotterel on the planet.

Date: 15 April 2025
DOC rangers say dog faeces left behind on Southland’s Foveaux Walkway have reached ‘obscene’ levels and may see dogs being excluded from the track entirely, unless things improve.

Date: 14 April 2025
Named after one of fiction’s most notorious characters, the threatened freshwater fish Gollum galaxias has been confirmed at several sites in the Waimatuku Stream near Invercargill.

Date: 10 April 2025
Work to contain the contaminated contents of an historic landfill is underway at Bluff’s Ocean Beach.

Date: 30 January 2025
A Department of Conservation study is predicting more extreme weather for New Zealand’s southernmost subantarctic island, which is likely to impact the sealions, albatross and other threatened species living there.

Date: 29 January 2025
The sea is rapidly claiming their home due to climate change, but the recent move of critically threatened Whenua Hou diving petrel to a new site could help secure their future.

Date: 23 January 2025
DOC has begun an incursion response on predator free Ulva Island after a rat was found dead in a trap last week during routine surveillance.