The Department of Conservation (DOC) looks after more than one-third of New Zealand, including 14 National Parks, 34 marine reserves and six marine mammal sanctuaries, on your behalf. That’s right, for you.
It’s a big job, and we couldn’t do it without a lot of help from our friends. People like you. That’s right, you.
You are a stakeholder in this story—and there’s a lot at stake. Get involved. We’d love to see you invested. The returns are priceless.
By working together we can make New Zealand the greatest living space on Earth.
Like a majority of New Zealander’s I do not want DoC to “look after” one third of NZ by poisoning NZ’s wildlife with deadly poisons 1080 & brodificaum (rat poison). Please email me at jimehilton@gmail.com and I will send you a link explaining why? DoC sadly stands for Department of Contamination. DoC, get your act together and outlaw this ECOCIDE. Public PARTICIPATION & CONSULTATION is what is needed, not PATHETIC PUBLIC PROPAGANDA by media releases and spin doctors. DoC is a Government Department, administered by Government SERVANTS. Its acting like a CONSERVATION CORPORATION, manipulating the public and destroying wildlife for profit.
If you are concerned about the use of 1080 to help protect NZ’s natural heritage please have a read of the info on the DOC website: http://www.doc.govt.nz/1080. All factual. No propaganda. If you’d like info from someone other than DOC read the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment report “Evaluating the use of 1080: Predators, poisons and silent forests” http://www.pce.parliament.nz/publications/all-publications/evaluating-the-use-of-1080-predators-poisons-and-silent-forests/
Merry Xmas 2014, and I am still a bit sad that my contract was finished just 2 days before all DOC employees got a life time hut pass, yeah, I love NZ and will forever remeber my manager who should have known better at the time.
If only I could exchange my pounamu I was given to a life time Hut pass?
There are DOC employees with 2 life time hut passes!
Seasons greetings and may 2015 be a good year for DOC and all of NZ nature heritage, Sergre /:)
Morena Sergre,
Stink about the hut pass. Talk about bad timing! Thanks nevertheless for the well wishes for the coming year. We hope 2015 is a great one for you too.
Well done guys and thanks heaps – we think you do an awesome job!
Thanks Jan/Stephen/coastingnz!