Visit New Zealand's largest known living kauri tree, Tāne Mahuta, on this short, easy walk suitable for buggies and children. It is open 9 am to 5 pm daily. This wheelchair and buggy accessible short ...

Note, toilet can be inaccessible in winter. There is a daily radio check-in and weather update to all the alpine huts in Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park. This is at 4:45 pm. There are instructions in the ...

Learn about animals and plants in Aotearoa, including many you can’t find anywhere else in the world.

This walk gently winds its way through subalpine grasslands and scrub to the Mueller Glacier moraine wall. The track passes through a landscape that was formed in 1913 when a stream cut through from ...

Pick up the track on the right hand side of the road outside the Westland Tai Poutini National Park Visitor Centre, before crossing and then going under the Waiho River bridge. The track then runs ...

The Government has made key policy decisions following consultation on two discussion documents. On 15 November 2024, the Government released two discussion documents that include proposals to: ...

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 ...

A karakia and blessing by Ngāti Ruanui has marked the formal opening of the suspension bridge over the Manganui Gorge, one of the most striking features of the Taranaki Crossing project on Taranaki ...

In an open letter to the world and on digital billboards, which went live overnight in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, DOC revealed it has “counted” all of nature and the total is 695 billion.

DOC has intensified trapping at a wild takahē site in the Greenstone Valley near Queenstown after four recent takahē deaths pointed to stoat predation. Ngāi Tahu and DOC first released takahē on Ngāi ...

New research released by DOC today reveals New Zealanders care deeply about nature and want to help but aren’t aware of the scale of challenges nature is up against. The research was commissioned to ...