DOC Archive

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  New trap promises better protection of the birds we love - by Kevin Hague

  
  
  
  I was able to announce some good news for our native birds and trees today. The Greens are launching a $4 million pest control package working jointly with the Government to trial a promising new trap called the Henry. The origin for this project lay in our second Green New Deal package released last year. [...] read more
  October 18, 2010 5:38 pm - 5 Comments
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  Mokihinui – Brownlee’s burp - by frog

  
  
  
  So this week our Minister of Mining and Damming (aka Energy and Resources) let slip that the Mokihinui hydro-dam “would not go ahead”. Does he know something or was it just his ‘opinion’? Whatever the brain-burp was, he was ill-advised to say it but it’d be nice to think that there may be Moki fans in Government – perhaps they are closet readers of the 1400-fan facebook page! read more
  November 5, 2009 10:16 pm - 28 Comments
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  Hats off to good farming at Landcorp - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  Here’s some good news on dairy farming and a doff of the cap to the SOE Landcorp and its farm managers. We recently asked Landcorp how it was doing with compliance on effluent consents.  Their General Secretary informs us that they had one infringement notice in 2008 and two in 2007. Landcorp has 37 dairy farms, so its [...] read more
  April 16, 2009 3:06 pm - 5 Comments
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  It’s the elephant, not the money - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  The media kerfuffle over Meridian’s secret ‘hush-money’ paid to DOC to supposedly silence its concerns with the Project Hayes wind farm is a little off the mark. While “following the money” is often a good maxim, in this case the elephant in the room is actually Government policy. Back in 2004, when the Labour Government began [...] read more
  February 17, 2009 1:32 pm - 3 Comments
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  Introduced species - by frog

  
  
  
  The Kiwi Party spent the weekend wrestling with United Future over the scraps of the Outdoor Recreation Party vote. On the funny side, I like this statement from Baldock’s release (with the conflicting release dates on it) is: The conflict [within DOC between conservation and recreation] arose because some DOC managers believe deer and trout for [...] read more
  September 8, 2008 9:23 am - 11 Comments
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  Would you like chips with that? - by frog

  
  
  
  As a result of an OIA request, the Minister of Conservation has today released these photos of 22 common dolphins caught by trawlers in December 2007.   The Minister says it was “unusual to have such a high number of reported incidental deaths in just one month”, however a DOC scientific report shows that it [...] read more
  March 18, 2008 5:37 pm - 1 Comment
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  Arapawa Island goats - by frog

  
  
  
  Well after I mocked him it seems Gordon Copeland has come up with an interesting issue for parliamentary debate today.  It’s possibly not the biggest issue for our time, but worthy of discussion none the less. Question 4 – Gordon Copeland to the Minister of Conservation: Is the Department of Conservation still proposing to proceed [...] read more
  March 5, 2008 12:26 pm - 8 Comments