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Monitoring our marine reserves: Let the fish counting begin

Department of Conservation —  26/06/2018

Tom Brough takes us through the third installment in our blog series from the marine reserve monitoring project at Banks Peninsula. With 75 hours of underwater footage to analyse our marine rangers have their work cut out for them counting a menagerie of fish life caught on underwater camera.

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Monitoring our marine reserves: 7 days of surveying

Department of Conservation —  31/05/2018

We catch up with Tom MacTavish, a Marine Ranger, undertaking monitoring at Banks Peninsula’s marine reserves using baited remote underwater video.

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A DOC field team at a biodiversity monitoring site in the Molesworth.

Biodiversity on your doorstep

Department of Conservation —  20/04/2018

Thanks to our new, interactive biodiversity information tool you can explore up to date biodiversity data across public conservation land.

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Monitoring rock wren in an alpine world

Department of Conservation —  15/02/2018

Research Assistant Crystal Brindle has followed the rock wren/tuke in to the alpine zone at Lake Roe to monitor the nesting success of this endangered native bird.

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Monitoring bats in Whirinaki

Department of Conservation —  27/01/2018

Christmas was fast approaching and most people were anticipating Santa’s reindeer; however, in the Whirinaki Te Pua-a-Tane Conservation Park, DOC rangers were on the lookout for another sort of flying mammal.

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