The Latest Breaking News from Department of Conservation

A super-fast boat race in Lyttelton Harbour might harm dolphins, advocates fear.

The whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, about 500 miles east of New Zealand's main islands. None of the whales could be refloated and all either died naturally or were euthanized.

An underfunded department is accused of dragging its feet over an exposed landfill

There are challenges to the Conservation Department’s failure to prioritise endangered marine species, using the excuse of Covid control and costs management.

A government agency has been instructed to crack down on an out-of-control rabbit population that is decimating lakeside land.

There were thought to be as few as 5000 of NZ's tiny Archey's frogs, but new eyebrow-raising research published by multinational minerals company OceanaGold says there are more than 50 mill

A resident of Cable Bay, in the far north of New Zealand, had initially brushed off the smell of the penguins as being attributable to a dead possum but it was actually a huge pile of dead birds

Official documents reveal the Conservation Department’s new boss walked straight into a budget crisis

An environmental criminologist tapes off Transmission Gully as a crime scene