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Joint Media Release – Te Uru Taumatua and Department of Conservation Auspiciously, one year on from powering up both the Tūhoe and Te Urewera Acts, the Department of Conservation and Tūhoe formalise a giant step forward in both relationship and on the ground operations signing a series of staff secondments to Tūhoe Te Uru Taumatua to undertake the work programme for Te Urewera Board. Te Uru Taumatua and the Department of Conservation...

The closure to our Waikaremoana Great Walk will stay in place for at least another fortnight to the end of July or until safe passage can be assured. At this time the Te Urewera Biodiversity team is working to assess the damage to the Waikaremōana track and the time it will take to carry out repair work before the closure is lifted. Brown Elia, the Lake Waikaremoana Tribal Biodiversity Manager, says that the lake margin huts are accessible by...

Due to an extremely high dumping of snow in our Waikaremōana region, the Te Urewera Board advises that our Lake Waikaremōana Great Walk and other services are temporarily closed until safer passage can be assured. The Te Urewera biodiversity team made up of Tūhoe and DOC team members have been assisting trampers and people from snowed in vehicles from yesterday and a helicopter sweep for people still on the track is underway today. ...

The death of a kiwi in a possum trap has saddened eastern bay Department of Conservation (DOC) rangers who have found 90 illegally set traps in recent...

A revolutionary new method has been used by DOC to upgrade its sewage system at its staff housing area in Kaitawa Village, near Lake Waikaremōana. DOC project manager Will Bamford said the newly installed advanced enviro-septic disposal system would work well in the remote Kaitawa...

Plans for the former Te Urewera National Park visitor centre at Aniwaniwa are still under discussion with the Waikaremōana community. The building was closed by DOC due to the high cost of repair caused by water...