The Department of Conservation is warning anglers not to eat trout in areas where 1080 poison has been dropped - a reversal of its position seven months ago.

The Department of Conservation and other pest management bodies will have an extra tool to battle rats, stoats and possums with Ohiti - a new trap sensor system.

Two Reefton women who were caught in the bush as 1080 poison rained from the sky last summer are now both reporting ill health.

Volunteers have gone into South Island back country looking for white-tailed deer which may have been killed by a Department of Conservation 1080 poison drop.

Five new marine reserves have been officially opened on the West Coast today.

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.

Plans for a $240m Fiordland monorail have been derailed by Conservation Minister Nick Smith, who says the project does not stack up economically or environmentally.

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.

An accord committing the Department of Conservation to maintaining the gains made by a privately backed environmental group has been signed in Nelson today.

Officials have been impressed at new results of a C02-powered pest trap, which has matched 1080 poison in wiping out entire rat populations.