Fish and Game Otago is questioning how it can do its statutory duty of protecting trout and salmon if the Otago Regional Council fails to notify it of consent applications involving waterways.
Deer hunters are being encouraged to visit the Caples Valley, near Glenorchy, in a bid to reduce fallow deer numbers.
Two stationary yellow-eyed penguins standing guard over Sandfly Bay on Otago Peninsula have been confusing penguins, tourists and volunteers alike.
New Zealand is home to some of the world's rarest marine mammals, yet there are concerns about the level of funding for research to help protect them. Rebecca Fox talks to scientists and the Department of Conservation about the fine balance between protecting species and funding.
Sirocco is coming back to Orokonui to get you hooked on kakapo conservation, writes Karin Ludwig.
Discovering no New Zealand sea lion pups were born on one of only five breeding colonies in the Auckland Islands is a concern despite an overall increase in pups on the islands, University of Otago zoologist Dr Bruce Robertson says.
A Department of Conservation plan allocating commercial fishing funding for marine research has fallen short of the expectations of both scientists and fishing interests.
Otago's endangered wildlife and habitats are ''on their own'' because the Government's cuts and policies are undermining the processes set up to protect them, former Otago Conservation Board chairwoman Associate Prof Abby Smith says.
The Department of Conservation (Doc) wants more people to take advantage of Otago's 4WD roads and rugged routes and is asking four-wheel-drive enthusiasts to have their say about their hobby.
It is hoped concerns such as competition between community groups and the Department of Conservation for funding will be addressed at a national conference in Dunedin later this year.
The disappearance of 25% of Otago's unique small fish in the past decade means trying to save those remaining is ''finger-in-the-dyke stuff'', the Department of Conservation warns.
A campaign backed by Wellington couple Gareth and Jo Morgan has reached its target of raising $1 million to fund the eradication of mice from the Antipodes Islands, 860km south of Stewart Island.
People with a soft spot or interest in some of Otago's special places are being urged to take a close look at a 10-year strategy governing their management.
Department of Conservation (Doc) ranger Ray Molloy oversees the trap-setting skills of Queenstown Climbing Club member Lise O'Leary in Wye Creek last month.
Part of a cliff face has fallen on to an Aramoana beach, narrowly missing a colony of endangered yellow-eyed penguins.
Construction of the Milford Dart tunnel would not cost Fiordland its World Heritage status, Conservation Minister Nick Smith said yesterday.
A survey of whitebait catches along the Clutha River is being carried out by the Department of Conservation (Doc).
The Department of Conservation (Doc) Wakatipu is upgrading the Lake Sylvan campsite and Bobs Cove car park in the third year of its three-year works programme to improve public facilities used by the large number of visitors to Queenstown.
Department of Conservation Wakatipu area manager Greg Lind is confident the ''idiot'' who tagged various structures the length of the Routeburn Track last month will be apprehended and prosecuted.
The net is closing on the person responsible for tagging ''Rowdy'' in felt pen along the Routeburn Track last month, following reports the perpetrator had been leaving their mark all over the South Island.
