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DoC spent $100k on 'junket' for staff
The Department of Conservation spent more than $100k sending staff overseas to learn a firefighting skill they don't even use here - and it plans to send them again.
The Department of Conservation spent more than $100k sending staff overseas to learn a firefighting skill they don't even use here - and it plans to send them again.
The discovery of 44 critically endangered Archey's frogs just a few kilometres from Whangamata has heartened an amphibian expert.
Get out the gumboots and spades, urges Dionne Christian, and plant natives to spruce up the region's parks.
The Conservation Minister has been challenged to justify the use of taxpayer money to clear pests from a private island owned by Sir Michael Fay and David Richwhite.
Labour is asking why the Department of Conservation is carrying out pest control on a private island owned by Sir Michael Fay and David Richwhite.
Three Auckland fishermen chanced upon a great white shark during a day in the Hauraki Gulf over the long weekend.
The local council will consider putting up signs on a New Plymouth walkway following a seal attack on an elderly man, but the animal won't be shot unless necessary.
An elderly man attacked by a fur seal on the New Plymouth foreshore was in a serious condition last night.
The Department of Conservation has been dragged into a row over a plan to dump poison from helicopters to kill mice on protected islands 50km offshore from San Francisco.
Pellets laced with 1080 poison will be fed to trout to assess potential risks from the planned massive dump of the pesticide in native forests.
If you've trekked the great outdoors in the past decade or so, chances are you've had a Department of Conservation brochure in your backpack.
Restored cottage on Rangitoto will soon take paying holidaymakers back to 1930s.
Hand-rails or other safety structures are unlikely to be installed on a hazardous section of Mt Aspiring National Park's Cascade Saddle route.
In the parks, beaches, back gardens and forests of the country, non-scientists can help with with a raft of research projects.
New Zealand remains under "intense pressure" from pests, which are costing our economy billions of dollars each year.
Officials have been impressed at new results of a C02-powered pest trap, which has matched 1080 poison in wiping out entire rat populations.
In South Island beech forests, rangers are collecting branches from the canopy of native forests to see how much food is around for native wildlife - and pests.
The threat of kauri dieback disease is rearing its ugly head in Northland but it's not the native tree's only enemy this summer.
The Department of Conservation is planning to upset the stomachs of kea that scavenge for food from tourists - a move designed to save the birds' lives.
A suspicious fire is burning about 10km south of the country's largest Kauri, Tane Mahuta.
Opponents of the controversial poison 1080 are furious at a planned bombardment and say the Conservation Minister is misleading the public.
Pest poison 1080 will be used to deal with an expected 30 million extra rats this year which threatens to "annihilate" the country's native endangered birds.
"Last night," ranger Mike Ogle said, "things went better". By better, he meant just one pilot whale out of 49 that volunteers had nudged back into the rising Golden Bay tide had returned to shore to die.
A Romanian man who disappeared while volunteering with the Department of Conservation on a remote island likely drowned, a coroner has found.