1080 on Rakiura/Stewart Island
View OIAs and proactive releases relating to 1080 on Rakiura/Stewart Island.
Motutapu and Rangitoto Islands - Concession (OIAD-5572 clarification)
Ref: OIAD-5727
Date: 31 October 2025
Appointments to the Queen Elizabeth the Second (QEII) National Trust Board
Ref: OIAD-5714
Date: 31 October 2025
Auckland Airport Black Swan Management (permits)
Ref: OIAD-5665
Date: 30 October 2025
Hunting permits: Horohoro Forest open hunting area - ENI
Ref: OIAD-5699
Date: 29 October 2025
Concessions related to Brooklyn Bay Road in Kaiuma Bay, Marlborough Sounds
Ref: OIAD-5693
Date: 24 October 2025
Cost and hours to eliminate deer - Hauturu, Waikato District
Ref: OIAD-5722
Date: 24 October 2025
Goats on SH2 between Gisborne and Napier
Ref: OIAD--5689
Date: 22 October 2025
Appointments to Winton racecourse reserve board
Ref: OIAD-5748
Date: 22 October 2025
- Response (PDF, 115K)
- Attachment 1: Copy of advertisements (PDF, 96K)
- Attachment 2: Copy of appointment letter 2025 (PDF, 225K)
Sales of commercial products - DOC involvement
Ref: OIAD-5672
Date: 21 October 2025
Proposed disestablishment of Predator Free 2050 Limited and public consultation on the Predator Free 2050 strategy review
Date: 17 October 2025
- Cabinet minute : Decision to disestablish Predator Free 2050 Limited (PDF, 143K)
- Next stages of the Predator Free 2050 programme (PDF, 363K)
Silverstream Salmon Hatchery Leasehold Agreement, Canterbury
Ref: OIAD-5661
Date: 14 October 2025
- Response (PDF,112K)
- Attachment 1: Original concession document (PDF,3,146K)
- Attachment 2: Deed of Assignment from NIWA to Salmon Smolt New Zealand Limited (PDF, 223K)
GlenHope Station concession - Eastern South Island
Ref: OIAD-5670
Date: 14 October 2025
- Response (PDF, 238K)
- Attachment 1: PAC 12-04-135 Alfeld PA and JA, Hundhammer H and I R – Scanned copy of Easement document (PDF, 1,490K)
Mining - Ecological reports, Santana Gold Mine, Bendigo Station
Ref: OIAD-5590
Date: 6 October 2025
- Response (PDF, 102K)
- Attachment 1: Bendigo Station CRR – Application for exchange of property rights 1993 (PDF, 2,125K)
Mining - Bendigo Ophir Mine proposal - further to OIAD-4241
Ref: OIAD-5662
Date: 3 October 2025
- Response (PDF,115K)
- Attachment 1: Bendigo covenant monitoring file note – February 2025 (PDF, 30K)
- Attachment 2 is not included as it was provided via a link to OneDrive
- Attachment 3: Bendigo photo comparisons (PDF,10,864K)
Staff numbers from November 2023
Ref: OIAD-5636
Date: 2 October 2025
Vote Conservation Funding to Game Animal Council (GAC), Sika and Fiordland Wapiti Foundations
Ref: OIAD-5639
Date: 2 October 2025
Funds application - Karioi project
Ref: OIAD-5638
Date: 1 October 2025
- Response (PDF,180K)
- Attachment 1: A Rocha (Karioi Project) DOC Community Fund Application Form (PDF,196K)
Bendigo Ophir Gold Mine proposal
View OIAs and proactive releases relating to Bendigo Ophir Gold Mine proposal.
Great walks and huts revenue and hut network costs
Ref: OIAD-5616
Date: 29 September 2025
Public conservation land (PCL) Bream Bay, Whangarei
Ref: OIAD-5612
Date: 29 September 2025
Trans-Tasman Resources Limited’s FastTrack Application – Taranaki VTM, 2025
Date: 25 September 2025
Jobs for Nature (JfN) - Report on Eradication efforts on Stewart Island/Rakiura by SIRCET (Community and Environment Trust)
Ref: OIAD-5602
Date: 24 September 2025
- Response (PDF,106K)
- Attachment 1: AL06.5 Restoring Rakiura End of Project report November 2023 (PDF, 2,202K)
- Attachment 2: Map Barberry Areas and Tracking Sept 21 to Aug 23 (PDF, 41K)
- Attachment 3: JFN Project Finance Quarterly Reports 2021 - 2023 (XLXS, 234K)
Commercial operator trip limits to protect Akaroa Hector’s dolphins
Date: 24 September 2025
- Marine mammal permit amendment – Operator feedback (PDF, 299K)
- Marine mammal permit amendments – Methods and statistics (PDF, 190K)
- Marine mammal permit amendments – Recommendation and decision report (PDF, 374K)
Charlie the kākā
View 2024-25 OIAs and proactive releases relating to Charlie the kākā.
Concessions held by educational institutions including Te Pukenga
Ref: OIAD-5554
Date: 23 September 2025
Verification or validation framework for pest control contractors or community-led environmental projects
Ref: OIAD-5563
Date: 23 September 2025
WARO Operations kill/capture data
Ref: OIAD-5591
Date: 18 September 2025
- Response (PDF,109K)
- Attachment 1: Response to OIA Request: OIAD-5591 – WARO Animal Kill for Financial year 2024-2025 (PDF,148K)
Concessions / Exceptional Circumstances
Ref: OIAD-5583
Date: 17 September 2025
Hoiho death data from July 2019
Ref: OIAD-5570
Date: 16 September 2025
- Response (PDF,185K)
- Attachment 1: Hoiho expenditure summary 2019-2025 (XLXS, 22K)
- Attachment 2: Death data hoiho 1999-00 until 2024-2025 (XLXS, 23K)
Chateau Tongariro – expressions of interest
Ref: OIAD-5578
Date: 16 September 2025
Chateau Tongariro advice
Ref: OIAD-5558
Date: 10 September 2025
Concessions - number active, waiting to be granted, and average time
Ref: OIAD-5537
Date: 9 September 2025
1080 aerial operations - costs
Ref: OIAD-5574
Date: 8 September 2025
Long-spined sea-urchin removals in the Poor Knights Islands
Ref: OIAD-5533
Date: 1 September 2025
Briefings on Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill
Date: 24 August 2025
Katipo spiders and shore skinks - Forestry Beach, Te Arai, Auckland
Ref: OIAD-5517
Date: 20 August 2025
Landings at Milford Sound Aerodrome
Ref: OIAD-5479
Date: 18 August 2025
Modernising conservation land management consultation
Date: 15 August 2025
Exploring charging for access to some public conservation land consultation
Date: 15 August 2025
Red Deer and Wapiti distribution in Fiordland
Ref: OIAD-5468
Date: 13 August 2025
Herds of Special Interest (HOSI) – Wapiti HOSI proposal briefing
Date: 11 August 2025
Budget 2025 advice
Ref: OIAD-5261
Date: 8 August 2025
Concessions – fees received from accommodation providers
Ref: OIAD-5454
Date: 8 August 2025
1080 safety assessment - Marine Environment Pathway
Ref: OIAD-5445
Date: 7 August 2025
Fish and Game reform documents
Ref: OIAD-5325
Date: 7 August 2025
Huts and connecting tracks
Ref: OIAD-5448
Date: 6 August 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 105K)
- Attachment 1: NATIS1 EAM Assets - points - huts (XLSX, 285K)
- Attachment 2: NATIS1 EAM Assets - lines - visitor tracks within 200m of a hut (XLSX, 389K)
International Visitor Levy (IVL) allocation of revenues for 2025-2026 year
Ref: OIAD-5409
Date: 4 August 2025
Kiwi population data
Ref: OIAD-5466
Date: 1 August 2025
Subantarctic tourism fee increases - Ministerial advice
Ref: OIAD-5414
Date: 1 August 2025
Subantarctic commercial tourism review and fee methodology
Ref: OIAD-5415
Date: 1 August 2025
Subantarctic tourism permits - revenue allocation
Ref: OIAD-5416
Date: 1 August 2025
Taranaki Crossing project, amount spent by DOC
Ref: OIAD-5433
Date: 31 July 2025
Construction project data for projects over $10m
Ref: OIAD-5470
Date: 30 July 2025
Environmental Defence Society (EDS) funding
Ref: OIAD-5360
Date: 23 July 2025
Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill – advice papers
Date: 16 July 2025
Urchin culling in marine reserves
Ref: OIAD-5333
Date: 15 July 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 247K)
- Item 1: Technical Advisors Advice on destructive urchin grazing at the Poor Knights Islands (PDF, 532K)
- Item 2: Director Memo Decision on Urchin Trial Removal Programme (PDF, 892K)
- Item 3: Special Permit Application Form - Centrostephanus rodgersii (PDF, 6,536K)
- Item 4: SP731-2 Special permit Feb 2023 (PDF, 1,852K)
- Item 5: Summary of Poor Knights urchin removal experiment 1 - April 2023 (PDF, 712K)
- Item 6: Summary of Poor Knights urchin removal experiment 2 and 3 – April 2023 (PDF, 539.6K)
- Item 7: Update on the Poor Knights urchin removal experiment 6 month follow-up - November 2023 (PDF, 1,492K)
- Item 8: Director Operations Memo Decision on Urchin Removal at the Poor Knights (PDF, 1,032K)
- Item 9: Special Permit Application Form - Project 6 Phase 2 (PDF, 1,000K)
- Item 10: SP731-5 DOC 6 May 2025(PDF, 75K)
Work from home (WFH) policy
Ref: OIAD-5299
Date: 27 June 2025
HPAI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) vaccine trial
Ref: OIAD-5279
Date: 26 June 2025
Herds of special interest (HOSI) - Legislation to enable them
Ref: OIAD-5184
Date: 25 June 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 233K)
- Attachment 1 (PDF, 89K)
- Attachment 2 (PDF, 237K)
- Attachment 3 (PDF, 62K)
- Attachment 4 (PDF, 105K)
- Attachment 5 (PDF, 855K)
- Attachment 6 (PDF, 420K)
- Attachment 7 (PDF, 38K)
- Attachment 8 (PDF, 642K)
- Attachment 9 (PDF, 156K)
- Attachment 10 (PDF, 72K)
- Attachment 11 (PDF, 110K)
- Attachment 12 (PDF, 347K)
- Attachment 13 (PDF, 753K)
- Attachment 14 (PDF, 808K)
- Attachment 15 (PDF, 96K)
- Attachment 16 (PDF, 86K)
- Attachment 17 (PDF, 704K)
- Attachment 18 (PDF, 548K)
Waitai Raharuhi Trust - gate access
Ref: OIAD-5260
Date: 24 June 2025
Technical Ecological Reports - Wairoa River, Tauranga Moana district
Ref: OIAD-5285
Date: 23 June 2025
Game Animal Council (Herds of Special Interest) Amendment Bill – proactive release of Cabinet paper
Date: 19 June 2025
Translocation of native birds into non-fenced environments
Ref: OIAD-5286
Date: 19 June 2025
DOC Hut and Bridge Inspection Manuals
Ref: OIAD-5282
Date: 13 June 2025
Tahr Foundation Community Agreement annual operational plan
Ref: OIAD-5239
Date: 13 June 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 127K)
- Attachment 1 (PDF, 5,892K)
- Attachment 2 (PDF, 5,910K)
- Attachment 3 (PDF, 8,555K)
NZSki Coronet Peak Ski Area Concession
Ref: OIAD-5185 and OIAD-5186
Date: 10 June 2025
- Response letter – OIAD-5185 and OIAD-5186 (PDF, 285K)
- Attachment 1: OIAD-5185 - Coronet Peak documents items 1–7 (PDF, 13,110K)
- Attachment 2: OIAD-5186 – Remarkables documents items 1–16 (PDF, 45,220K)
Research and trials of rodent contraceptives in NZ
Ref: OIAD-5281
Date: 6 June 2025
Dotterel numbers - Rakiura/Stewart Island
Ref: OIAD-5196
Date: 5 June 2025
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) on its progress in achieving its targets by 2030
Ref: OIAD-5177
Date: 30 May 2025
Mining Activities on Conservation Land (January 2024 - April 2025)
Ref: OIAD-5179
Date: 30 May 2025
Backcountry huts funding and management – Proposed changes
Ref: OIAD-5086
Date: 30 May 2025
Poronui Station, Central North Island - Easement and Public Access
Ref: OIAD-5114
Date: 30 May 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 275K)
- Attachment 1 (PDF, 20,284K)
- Attachment 2 (PDF, 20,255K)
- Attachment 3 (PDF, 15,897K)
- Attachment 4 (PDF, 18,349K)
Mining - Buller Plateaux Continuation Project
Ref: OIAD-5169
Date: 29 May 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 234K)
- Attachment 1 (PDF, 1,001K)
- Attachment 2 (PDF, 3,643K)
- Attachment 3 (PDF, 8,318K)
- Attachment 4 (PDF, 8,867K)
- Attachment 5 (PDF, 1,754K)
North Taranaki Visitors Centre - Te Kotahitanga o Te Atiawa Trust
Ref: OIAD-5108
Date: 29 May 2025
Concession process - Abel Tasman National Park
Ref: OIAD-5161
Date: 27 May 2025
Fast Track Approvals Bill
Date: 26 May 2025
- DOC Fast track proactive release material – Tranche 2 (PDF, 395K)
- DOC Fast track proactive release material – Tranche 3 (PDF, 5,684K)
- DOC Fast track proactive release material – Tranche 4 (PDF, 4,814K)
Contents Tranche 2:
- Briefing: 24-B-0254 - Recommendations on conservation approvals for Fast Track Approvals Bill (to support joint Ministers meeting 29 May)
Contents Tranche 3:
- Memo: 24-B-0345 Potential inclusion of highest value conservation areas in the Fast-track Approvals Bill
- Briefing: 24-B-0339 Broadening the scope of freshwater fish related approvals in the one-stop shop
- Talking Points: 24-K-0019 Cabinet paper talking points
- Memo: 24-M-0098 Meeting advice for 19 August Fast-track Ministers meeting
- Memo: 24-M-0098 Talking points for 19 August Fast-track Ministers meeting
- Briefing: 24-B-0424 Decisions on land management and rights of first refusal in FTAB
- Briefing: 24-B-0418 Policy and procedural matters for FTAB land exchanges
- Briefing: 24-B-0419 Expanding the scope of freshwater fisheries approvals in FTAB
- Briefing: 24-B-0434 Fast-track Approvals Bill: Electricity infrastructure on high value conservation land
Contents Tranche 4:
- Attachment A – Talking points provided to the Minister of Conservation for the Second Reading of the Fast Track Approvals Bill
- Attachment B – 24-B-0577: Fast-track land exchanges and reserves
- Attachment C – Follow up advice to the Minister of Conservation following Briefing 24-B-0577
- Attachment D – Further advice from the Department of Conservation on wildlife approvals following feedback from Ministers Jones' and Bishop's offices
- Attachment E – Advice to the Minister of Conservation on further proposed changes to Section 17DA
- Attachment F – 24-K-0032: Cabinet paper talking points
- Attachment G – Talking points provided to the Minister of Conservation for Committee of the Whole House
Fast-track water storage proposal - Klondyke
Ref: OIAD-5168
Date: 22 May 2025
Kiwi translocation to Waiheke Island
Ref: OIAD-5099
Date: 22 May 2025
Goldfields Railway lease and concession documents – Waihi
Ref: OIAD-5156
Date: 20 May 2025
Kiwi translocation Waiheke Island application
Ref: OIAD-5100
Date: 22 May 2025
Herds of Special Interest (HOSI) – Sika HOSI proposal briefing
Date: 16 May 2025
• Briefing: 25-B-0097 Sika HOSI proposal proactive release (PDF, 3,331K)
Prosecution guidelines and data
Ref: OIAD-5134
Date: 16 May 2025
Closure of Tunnel Beach Track, Dunedin
Ref: OIAD-5122
Date: 16 May 2025
Kaiteriteri Recreation Reserve Board Appointments - further to OIAD-5062
Ref: OIAD-5138
Date: 16 May 2025
Mining - Oceana Gold Mine North Project information
Ref: OIAD-5135
Date: 15 May 2025
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) documents - 1 Jan 2024 to current
Ref: OIAD-5139
Date: 14 May 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 232K)
- Attachment 1: Kia Toipoto (Closing Gaps) Action Plan 2024 (PDF, 2,531K)
- Attachment 2: Healthy Work Survey 2025 (PDF, 121K)
Wildlife Act permits- Section 53 Wildlife Act authorisations
Ref: OIAD-5028
Date: 8 May 2025
Wildlife Act permit section 53 – all permits issued for the killing of protected species 2015 – 2025
Ref: OIAD-5113
Date: 8 May 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 161K)
- Attachment: Table of s53 Wildlife Act permissions since 4 November 2022 with authority to kill (XLSX, 17K)
Wildlife Act permit section 53 - all permits issued 27 November 2023
Ref: OIAD-5115
Date: 8 May 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 163K)
- Attachment 1: Table of s53 Wildlife Act authorities since 27 November 2023 (XLSX, 30K)
Herds of special interest (HOSI) - Wapiti HOSI proposal
Ref: OIAD-5120
Date: 8 May 2025
Note that the response letter also contains the follow up email and the HOSI document for release
Wildlife Act, section 53 authorisations
Ref: OIAD-5127
Date: 8 May 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 165K)
- Attachment 1: Table of Wildlife Act authorisations 04 November 2024 to 16 April 2025 (XLSX, 2,627K)
Waipoua forest - evidence of pre-Māori human occupation
Ref: OIAD-5172
Date: 7 May 2025
Mining - Access arrangement - Buller Coal Ltd - Escarpment Mine
Ref: OIAD-5103
Date: 7 May 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 232K)
- Item 1 (PDF, 438K)
- Item 2 (PDF, 896K)
- Item 3 (PDF, 1,838K)
- Item 4.0 (PDF, 8,877K)
- Item 4.1(PDF, 11,305K)
- Item 4.2 (PDF, 20,197K)
Puketahā wildlife sanctuary in Wainuiomata, Wellington
Ref: OIAD-5070
Date: 6 May 2025
Predator Free Rakiura/Stewart Island establishment
Ref: OIAD-5104
Date: 5 May 2025
Milford Sound Tourism Limited – Communications with Ministers and third parties
Ref: OIAD-5084
Date: 2 May 2025
Kiwi survey information for the Lewis Pass area
Ref: OIAD-5088
Date: 1 May 2025
Implementing New Zealand’s Biodiversity Strategy
Cabinet papers, minutes and reports.
- Seeking agreement to consult on the next implementation plan for New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy – Cabinet paper and Cabinet ECO Committee Minute (PDF, 1,200K)
- Draft Discussion document, Action for nature Implementing New Zealand’s Biodiversity Strategy 2025-2030 - Cabinet paper Appendix 2 (PDF, 6,300K)
- Briefing: Cabinet paper for discussion document on the next ANZBS implementation plan (PDF, 2,500K)
- Status report excerpt ANZBS, 14 Oct 2024 (PDF, 200K)
Pure Turoa Ltd (PTL) concession applications, advice on solvency
Ref: OIAD-5071
Date: 30 April 2025
Campsite Pricing Review
Date: 29 April 2025
Advice to the Minister of Conservation regarding Campsite Pricing Review (PDF, 671K)
Includes:
- Status Report Update – 22 August 2024
- Status Report Update – 13 February 2025
Tongariro Crossing rahui
Ref: OIAD-5076
Date: 29 April 2025
Mining - New Talisman Goldmining, Karangahake, Site Reports
Ref: OIAD-5066
Date: 28 April 2025
Briefings to MOC January - February 2025
Ref: OIAD-5043
Date: 28 April 2025
Funding for non-governmental organisations (NGOs)
Ref: OIAD-5064
Date: 24 April 2025
Tongariro Crossing rāhui - legality and enforcement
Ref: OIAD-5068
Date: 24 April 2025
Waipoua Forest Archaeological Investigation Records (1985–1988) – Northland
Ref: OIAD-5052
Date: 22 April 2025
Mining - Permissions granted to New Talisman Mining Ltd at Karangahake
Ref: OIAD-5065
Date: 22 April 2025
Concession (easements) to Dalefield Water Supply Inc. (DWS), Queenstown
Ref: OIAD-4617
Date: 10 December 2024 and 19 December 2024
- Response letter 1 (PDF, 223K)
- Attachment 1 (PDF, 17,927K)
- Response letter 2 (PDF, 160K)
- Attachment 2 (PDF, 13,107K)
Further to OIAD-4617 Dalefield Water Supply Society Inc. (Queenstown) easements
Ref: OIAD-4939
Date: 18 March 2025
Easement costs/fees - permission number 107337-OTH
Ref: OIAD-5060
Date: 17 April 2025
Permission processing times - Section 53 Wildlife Act (Mining)
Ref: OIAD-5047
Date: 17 April 2025
Permission processing times - Access arrangements Crown Minerals Act
Ref: OIAD-5048
Date: 17 April 2025
Predator-Free Rakiura Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
Ref: OIAD-5021
Date: 17 April 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 474K)
- Attachment: Memorandum of Understanding – Predator Free Rakiura Project (PDF, 1,241K)
Public funding expenditure on Tourism, Public relations, Biosecurity for the last 10 years
Ref: OIAD-5041
Date: 17 April 2025
Rakiura Track and Application for grants from Stewart Island Rakiura Visitor Levy Fund
Ref: OIAD-5009
Date: 16 April 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 299K)
- Application 1: SIRVL Fund 2022 (PDF, 4,564K)
- Application 2: SIRVL Fund 2022 (PDF, 896K)
Wildlife Act - Permissions granted under the act for Brynderwyns and Mangamuka roadworks, Northland
Ref: OIAD-5002
Date: 15 April 2025
Whitebait preservation communications with Ngāi Tahu and ECAN
Ref: OIAD-5025
Date: 14 April 2025
Wildlife management methods used by DOC
Ref: OIAD-5044
Date: 11 April 2025
Hauraki Gulf/Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill
Ref: OIAD-5042
Date: 11 April 2025
Wildlife Act permits section 53 - information provided to Environmental Law Initiative (ELI)
Ref: OIAD-5019
Date: 10 April 2025
1080 operation in Stewart Island/Rakiura and safety plan for dotterels
Ref: OIAD-5020
Date: 10 April 2025
- Response letter (PDF, 261K)
- Attachment 1: Consultation on effects cover notes (PDF, 823K)
- Attachment 2: Pukunui Community Hui Flyer (PDF, 823K)
- Attachment 3: National Predator Control Programme 2025 Aerial 1080 Operations in the Southern South Island (PDF, 4,362K)
Tongariro National Park Management Plan and UNESCO correspondence
Ref: OIAD-4987
Date: 9 April 2025
Pest management, ecological impact of companion and community cats and predator free islands
Ref: OIAD-5012
Date: 8 April 2025
Ferny Gair and Teme River correspondence - Marlborough
Ref: OIAD-4957
Date: 8 April 2025
Wildlife Act - Permissions granted under the Act - NZTA Waka Kotahi
Ref: OIAD-4993
Date: 7 April 2025
1080 operation - Waipoua Forest, Northland
Ref: OIAD-4995
Date: 7 April 2025
Game bird shooting season
Ref: OIAD-4996
Date: 7 April 2025
Specific reports/publications about dotterels (Departmental) - Stewart Island
Ref: OIAD-5010
Date: 4 April 2025
Lizards - RMA consent hearing, Protranz application at Whiterock - Wairarapa
Ref: OIAD-5018
Date: 3 April 2025
Red and black billed gulls nesting site, Christchurch city
Ref: OIAD-4991
Date: 3 April 2025
Biopsy sampling of Hector's dolphins in Otago
Ref: OIAD-4994
Date: 2 April 2025
Hector's and Māui dolphins incident database
Ref: OIAD-4989
Date: 2 April 2025
1080 - Catlins 1080 drop immediately before the 'roar' period
Ref: OIAD-4980
Date: 1 April
Females involved in wild animal control work
Ref: OIAD-4976
Date: 1 April 2025
WARO information since 2020
Ref: OIAD-4977
Date: 1 April 2025
Mining - OceanaGold Land exchange application, Coromandel
Ref: OIAD-5017
Date: 1 April 2025
Island-Ocean Connection Challenge (IOCC) agreement
Ref: OIA-4936
Date: 17 March 2025
DOC firefighters
Ref: OIA-4921
Date: 14 March 2025
Great Walks costs and income
Ref: OIA-4951
Date: 13 March 2025
Wildlife management reserves
Ref: OIA-4908
Date: 12 March 2025
Stewardship land
Ref: OIA-4855
Date: 5 March 2025
Chateau Tongariro
Ref: OIA-4853
Date: 5 March 2025
Ruapehu ski fields
Ref: OIA-4862
Date: 3 March 2025
Section 53 Wildlife Act Authorities
Ref: OIAD-2511
Date published to website: 2 April 2025
OIA date: 16 December 2022
- Response letter (PDF, 211K)
- Attachment 1 (Items 1 – 39) (PDF, 21,099K)
- Attachment 2 (Items 1 – 39) (PDF, 20,567K)
- Attachment 3 (Items 1 – 39) (PDF, 14,567K)
- Attachment 4 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 11,257K)
- Attachment 5 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 14,458K)
- Attachment 6 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 13,319K)
- Attachment 7 (Items 1 – 42) (PDF, 16,620K)
- Attachment 8 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 22,105K)
- Attachment 9 (Items 1 – 41) (PDF, 15,805K)
- Attachment 10 (Items 1 – 40) (PDF, 12,933K)
- Attachment 11 (Items 1 – 22) (PDF, 5,476K)
- Attachment 12 (Items 1 – 24) (PDF, 3,280K)
Briefings to the Minister of Conservation regarding Predator Free 2050 Ltd
Date: 7 March 2025
- Briefing: 24-B-0312 Predator Free 2050 Limited 2024-25 SPE (PDF, 1,103K)
- Publication: 23-B-0312 Predator Free 2050 Limited 2024-25 SPE (PDF, 12,704K)
- Briefing: 24-B-0532 Predator Free 2050 Limited 2023-24 Annual Report (PDF, 874K)
- Briefing: 24-B-0554 Predator Free 2050 Limited draft 2025-26 LOE (PDF, 742K)
- Document: 24-B-0554 Predator Free 2050 Limited 2025-26 LOE (PDF, 853K)
Hut and track and campsite data - further to OIAD-3877
Ref: OIAD-4875
Date: 28 February 2025
- Response (PDF, 259K)
- Attachment 1: Huts (XLSX, 56K)
- Attachment 2: Campsites (XLSX, 24K)
- Attachment 3: GW Facility & Bednights (XLSX, 85K)
- Attachment 4: Non-GW Facility & Bednights (XLSX, 82K)
- Attachment 5: Facility Mapping (XLSX, 21K)
- Attachment 6: Tracks and Trails (XLSX, 189K)
DOC HOT line calls re little blue penguins dead and alive
Ref: OIAD-4866
Date: 27 February 2025
- Response (PDF, 181K)
- Attachment 1: Briefing: International Visitor Levy investment proposal - carpark charging pilot (XLSX 361K)
Conservation Board nominations 2025
Ref: OIAD-4873
Date: 26 February 2025
Biodiversity monitoring - Stewart Island
Ref: OIAD-4820
Date: 26 February 2025
- Response (PDF, 227K)
- Attachment 1: Rakiura Vascular Plants Outcome Plans (PDF, 690K)
- Attachment 2: Stewart Island Rakiura Dune Restoration Program Report (PDF, 1,887K)
- Attachment 3: Otago University DRAG Report 2023 (PDF, 20,712K)
- Attachment 4: Report to Dune Restoration Advisory Group – Monitoring and Research (PDF, 73,380K)
- Attachment 5: Gunnera hamiltonii Information Compilation (PDF, 728K)
- Attachment 6: National Parks Status and Trend Report Rakiura National Park (PDF, 3,153K)
- Attachment 7: Park Level Results of Tier 1 Monitoring (PDF, 6,941K)
- Attachment 8: Rakiura Forest Health Report Memo (PDF, 821K)
- Attachment 9: Rakiura Monitoring 2010 Future (PDF, 14,479K)
- Attachment 10: MWLR Tier One Review of Key Findings 2023-2024 (PDF, 3,352K)
- Attachment 11: Monitoring the Ecological Integrity of the Indigenous Forests of Rakiura (PDF, 2,770K)
Outdoor gear sold by DOC, items and revenue, Rakiura DOC visitor centre days open
Ref: OIAD-4864
Date: 25 February 2025
Project Jonah MOU
Ref: OIAD-4836
Date: 24 February 2025
- Response (PDF, 217K)
- Attachment 1: Service Level Agreement between Project Jonah and DOC (PDF, 1,576K)
Cases of people caught fishing/collecting seafood in prohibited locations
Ref: OIAD-4821
Date: 21 February 2025
Whio survey report Kahurangi
Ref: OIAD-4852
Date: 21 February 2025
- Response (PDF, 175K)
- Attachment 1: Survey of the Distribution and Abundance of whio in Kahurangi National Park (PDF, 2,423K)
- Attachment 2: Kahurangi Whio Survey Update (PDF, 1,750K)
Number of frontline staff and number of rangers employed by DOC
Ref: OIAD-4880
Date: 19 February 2025
Pest plants of Kapiti Island document [weeds]
Ref: OIAD-4909
Date: 19 February 2025
- Response (PDF, 70K)
- Attachment 1: Pest plants of Kapiti Island and neighbouring islands: inventory, abundances and distributions (PDF, 6,859K)
Hunting and firearms - use of shotguns on PCL
Ref: OIAD-4834
Date: 17 February 2025
Mt Ruapehu - advice on Concession Delegation - Whakapapa Ski Field
Ref: OIAD-4801
Date: 17 February 2025
Mt Ruapehu - Government funding and plans for Whakapapa ski fields
Ref: OIAD-4792
Date: 17 February 2025
Pest control/toxin use and monitoring - SSI Eglinton Valley, Fiordland, Stewart Island
Ref: OIAD-4818
Date: 13 February 2025
- Response (PDF, 217K)
- Attachment 1: Question 1 (PDF, 13,260K)
- Attachment 2: Question 2 (PDF, 7,511K)
- Attachment 3: Question 3 (PDF, 9,476K)
- Attachment 5 part A (PDF, 63,943K)
- Attachment 5 part B (PDF, 38,754K)
Marine Protected Areas/Reserves
Ref: OIAD-4817
Date: 12 February 2025
Research Permissions Processing Times
Ref: OIAD-4863
Date: 12 February 2025
Bulldozed gull nesting colony - further to OIAD-4794
Ref: OIAD-4803
Date: 11 February 2025
DOC and Ngāi Tahu documents relating to Milford Sound Tourism since 25 October 2024
Ref: OIAD-4798
Date: 10 February 2025
Mt Ruapehu - Whakapapa concession decision to publicly notify
Ref: OIAD-4835
Date: 7 February 2025
Threatened plant species reports in Dunstan Ranges - Central Otago
Ref: OIAD-4787
Date: 5 February 2025
- Response (PDF, 207K)
- Attachment 1: Bendigo Scenic Historic Reserves (PDF, 755K)
- Attachment 2: Ceratocephala pungens Summary Report (PDF, 4,284K)
- Attachment 3: DG Expert Evidence TKO Properties (PDF, 5,978K)
- Attachment 4: Ecology and Conservation Status of Three Spring Annual Herbs in Dryland Ecosystem (PDF, 13,314K)
- Attachment 5: Land Use Effects on Spring Annual Herbs in Rare Non-Forest-Ecosystems of New Zealand (PDF, 2,031K)
- Attachment 6: Otago Regional Council Plan Change (PDF, 2,149K)
- Attachment 7: Spring Annual Species Dunstan Ranges Bioweb Records (PDF, 600K)
- Attachment 8: Waenga Botanical (PDF, 651K)
- Attachment 9: Location Map (PDF, 1,898K)
Car park charging trials and International Visitor Levy (IVL)
Ref: OIAD-4682
Date: 31 January 2025
- Response (PDF, 173K)
- Attachment 1: Briefing: International Visitor Levy investment proposal - carpark charging pilot (PDF, 32,687K)
TrapNZ and funds paid to Groundtruth since 2014
Ref: OIAD-4772
Date: 31 January 2025
Purse seine fishing vessels and protected species data
Ref: OIAD-4783
Date: 30 January 2025
Chateau Tongariro - all briefings and Cabinet papers related to the future of the Chateau
Ref: OIAD-4805
Date: 30 January 2025
Chateau Tongariro - all briefings and Cabinet papers relating its future
Ref: OIAD-4789
Date: 29 January 2025
Avian flu - Alleged comment re outcomes for wildlife rehab of avian influenza birds - HPAI
Ref: OIAD-4788
Date: 28 January 2025
Briefings to the Minister of Conservation regarding Predator Free 2050 Ltd
Date: 27 January 2025
Contents:
- Briefing: 24-B-0102 – Predator Free 2050 Limited proposed approach to board appointments – 11 April 2024
- Memo: 24-B-0114 – Correction to briefing on PF2050 Ltd Annual Report (23-B-0509) – 29 February 2024
- Briefing: 23-B-0509 – Predator Free 2050 Ltd Annual Report 2022-23 – 29 February 2024
- Briefing: 24-B-0012 – Draft Letter of Expectations 2024-25 for Predator Free 2050 Limited – 8 February 2024
- Briefing: 24-B-0179 – Predator Free 2050 Limited – draft Statement of Performance Expectations 2024-25 – 3 May 2024
Avian flu - facilities and protocols used for avian influenza vaccine trials (HPAI)
Ref: OIAD-4751
Date: 24 January 2025
Māori Data Sovereignty Practices
Ref: OIAD-4757
Date: 24 January 2025
North Island brown kiwi translocation to Waiheke
Ref: OIAD-4793
Date: 16 January 2025
- Response (PDF, 229K)
- Attachment 1: Kiwi Recovery Group Advice - kiwi to Waiheke Island (PDF, 775K)
- Attachment 2: Kiwi Recovery Group Advice - kiwi to Waiheke Island (PDF, 791K)
- Attachment 3: Kiwi Recovery Group Advice - kiwi to Waiheke Island (PDF, 795K)
DOC firearms safety and storage practices
Ref: OIAD-4722
Date: 16 January 2025
Parakiwai Track closure - Coromandel
Ref: OIAD-4713
Date: 14 January 2025
Bird Deaths Causes & Statistics in the Christchurch area
Ref: OIAD-4743
Date: 14 January 2025
Upper Selwyn Huts - ECAN decision re Selwyn River Stop Bank
Ref: OIAD-4731
Date: 14 January 2025