21 November, 2009
Conservation Minister Tim Groser is to honour botanist Dr Philip Simpson by presenting him with New Zealand's premier plant conservation award, the Loder Cup, at a ceremony in Nelson tonight.
Read full release >>29 October, 2009
The Government is to inject $4.7 million into a programme to help save kauri trees threatened by a disease known as kauri dieback (Phytophthora taxon Agathis).
Read full release >>22 October, 2009
Food Safety Minister Kate Wilkinson leaves New Zealand today for a week of meetings with Australian and Chinese counterparts.
Read full release >>16 October, 2009
Conservation Minister Tim Groser has today announced the allocation of funding grants totalling over $3 million dollars for more than 70 conservation projects across 23 thousand hectares of private land.
Read full release >>16 October, 2009
Conservation Minister Tim Groser today announced the Department of Conservation (DOC) is launching a series of pilot projects designed to help improve the way it works with business to deliver conservation gains.
Read full release >>15 October, 2009
Conservation Minister Tim Groser has asked the New Zealand Conservation Authority (NZCA) to investigate the creation of a new National Park in Northland.
Read full release >>25 September, 2009
Associate Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson has welcomed the release today of a discussion paper outlining plans to establish a Big Game Hunting Council.
Read full release >>16 September, 2009
A breakthrough in self-setting trap technology unveiled today will provide urgently-needed, bush level protection for endangered birds like the kiwi says Conservation Minister Tim Groser.
Read full release >>11 September, 2009
The Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park's newly refurbished and extended visitor centre is officially open, Associate Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson announced today.
Read full release >>3 August, 2009
Conservation Minister Tim Groser today announced the start of a review of a range of funds which provide public funding for conservation on private land.
Read full release >>29 July, 2009
Nelson botanist Dr. Philip Simpson has been awarded one of New Zealand's highest conservation honours for his ongoing work with native plants, Conservation Minister Tim Groser announced today.
Read full release >>7 July, 2009
Forest and Bird's claim that the Government plans "wide-scale privatisation" of the South Island high country is complete rubbish, says Associate Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson.
Read full release >>30 June, 2009
Acting Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson has thanked the members of the East Coast Hawke's Bay Conservation Board for their hard work, with the board to be disestablished with effect from today due to a reconfiguration of boundaries.
Read full release >>1 May, 2009
Associate Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson will embark on a hands-on inspection of the Kakapo Recovery Programme on Whenua Hou (Codfish Island) this weekend.
Read full release >>22 April, 2009
Conservation Minister Tim Groser today announced changes to the boundary of the Oteake Conservation Park to exclude a 195 hectare area over the Hawkdun lignite deposit - a significant resource of recoverable energy.
Read full release >>21 April, 2009
New Zealanders, tourists and native wildlife are the big winners with the historic addition of the Te Kahui Kaupeka Conservation Park to Canterbury's public land.
Read full release >>27 March, 2009
Conservation Minister Tim Groser today officially opened the upgraded Pukaha Mt Bruce National Wildlife Centre and marked the occasion by releasing a young brown kiwi into the Pukaha forest.
Read full release >>20 March, 2009
Up to ten little spotted kiwi will have a new home in the Hauraki Gulf on Saturday when they are released on Motuihe Island, says Conservation Minister Tim Groser.
Read full release >>11 March, 2009
Conservation Minister Tim Groser says the long running campaign to save the kakapo has reached a new milestone today with confirmation that the population of threatened birds has cracked through the 100 mark.
Read full release >>20 February, 2009
The Department of Conservation needs to ensure a greater degree of transparency in agreements reached over resource consents, Acting Conservation Minister Nick Smith says.
Read full release >>9 January, 2009
The Department of Conservation will review its safety procedures at Fox Glacier after yesterday's tragedy in which two Australian tourists died in an ice fall at the toe of the glacier, says Conservation Minister Tim Groser.
Read full release >>8 December, 2008
Conservation Minister Tim Groser has today released the Briefing for the Incoming Minister of Conservation from the Department of Conservation.
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