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After heavy rainfall over Easter weekend, a bridge on the Hooker Valley Track, one of New Zealand’s most popular tourist destinations, has been closed by the Department of Conservation. The second ...

Charming Creek Walkway is split into two separate tracks due to a large active slip. The track starts with an easy 10-minute walk to the Ngakawau bins area. This area includes: coal bins a boiler loco ...

Check which access roads into Mt Richmond Forest Park are open or closed. Check for alerts about temporary changes that may affect the safety or enjoyment of your trip into Mount Richmond Forest Park.

No dogs. Other pets on conservation land rules. The walk to the viewing area winds gently through the rainforest, with glimpses of the mountain tops, waterfalls and the upper glacier. A short uphill ...

Te Papa-Kura-o-Taranaki, formerly known as Egmont National Park, can be found on the western coast of New Zealand's North Island. Here the volcano Taranaki rules supreme.

The annual 2025 Pureora Hunting Competition prizegiving was held on Sunday 27 April. The annual Pureora Hunting Competition is a free competition for wild deer and pigs taken from Pureora Forest Park ...

Aerially applied 1080 bait is a necessary and effective method for protecting native wildlife, but some people have concerns about its use. There’s a lot of misinformation out there about 1080. Below ...

$9.2 million from DOC’s Community Fund has been awarded to 20 groups protecting threatened species and ecosystems across Aotearoa New Zealand. The DOC Community Fund (DOCCF) is a contestable Crown ...

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. The fish are named ...

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. One of Bluff’s ...

Information released today by the DOC reveals more detail on several marine mammal species, helping to improve how they are managed in New Zealand. The number of marine mammal species in New Zealand ...