Department of Conservation (DOC) - Recreation track lines (approx. centreline). Dataset shows tracks managed for walking and tramping. If you intend to walk a track, please confirm with your local office or the DOC website that the track isn't under a temporary or more permanent closure before embarking. Refreshed weekly and reflects the content on the...

Department of Conservation - Recreation Hunting Permit Areas. This dataset is the Department of Conservation's record of those parts of Public Conservation Land where recreational hunting may take place. If hunting within these areas you MUST obtain a hunting permit first; either online at Things to do - Hunting or from your local DOC office....

Spatial representation of DOC's land management units defined by various acts of parliament and legislation. The attributes in this dataset are derived from the National Property and Land Information System (NaPALIS), which is a centralised database for all Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) and Department of Conservation (DOC) administered land. Public...

Department of Conservation (DOC) - Recreation track lines (approx. centreline). Dataset shows tracks managed for walking and tramping. If you intend to walk a track, please confirm with your local office or the DOC website that the track isn't under a temporary or more permanent closure before embarking. Refreshed weekly and reflects the content on the...

Department of Conservation (DOC) - Recreation track lines (approx. centreline). Dataset shows tracks managed for walking and tramping. If you intend to walk a track, please confirm with your local office or the DOC website that the track isn't under a temporary or more permanent closure before embarking. Refreshed weekly and reflects the content on the...

Freedom camping is permitted on public conservation land, except in areas where it is expressly prohibited or restricted to self contained vehicles. This is indicated by signage.Restrictions on freedom camping on public conservation land only apply to areas (normally near roads) where there has been a history of problems caused by inappropriate freedom...

Department of Conservation (DOC) - Huts and bivvies. Dataset shows all huts and bivvies. If you intend to stay in a hut/bivvy, please confirm with your local office or the DOC website that it is available and not under a temporary or more permanent closure before departing. Please note some huts require advance booking, contact your local office or visit...

Department of Conservation (DOC) - Campsites. Dataset shows all campsites. If you intend to stay in a campsite, please confirm with your local office or the DOC website that it is available and not under a temporary or more permanent closure before departing. Please note some campsites require advance booking, contact your local office or visit the DOC...

DOC's Mountain Bike Tracks dataset (tracks where mountain biking is permitted). Mountain Bike tracks are identified where mountain biking is a permitted activity, as identified by the DOC recreation staff. Refreshed weekly and reflects the content on the website.*****LICENCE*****This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0...

DOC's Mountain Bike Tracks dataset (tracks where mountain biking is permitted). Mountain Bike tracks are identified where mountain biking is a permitted activity, as identified by the DOC recreation staff. Refreshed weekly and reflects the content on the website.*****LICENCE*****This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0...

DOC's Mountain Bike Tracks dataset (tracks where mountain biking is permitted). Mountain Bike tracks are identified where mountain biking is a permitted activity, as identified by the DOC recreation staff. Refreshed weekly and reflects the content on the website.*****LICENCE*****This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0...

Ecosystem Management Units are places identified as important for management because of the types and condition of the ecosystems and species there. They are usually quite large and often include groups of related ecosystems, which are managed together. Many also include threatened species. As a Government agency, DOC is focused on managing for outcomes....

National wild animal recovery operations (WARO) cover the supply of deer, pig, goat and chamois to Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) approved processors, and live capture of the same wild animals (excluding chamois) to be placed on authorised properties. National WARO concessions exclude the carriage of either recreational hunters or fare paying...

Aerially assisted trophy hunting (AATH), also known as heli-hunting, involves flying recreational hunters and their guides into high country areas by helicopter in search of trophy animals. This includes actively searching for wild animals with trophy potential, dropping off hunters and guides to ground shoot the wild animal and the recovery of the animal...

This dataset contains dust mass concentrations, trace element concentrations and Sr-Nd isotope ratios of dust-laden surface snow from the Franz-Josef, Fox and Tasman Glaciers in the Southern Alps, New Zealand. Samples were collected following a severe Australian bushfire in 2019/2020 that deposited a layer of red dust across the glaciers. Background snow...

Supporting data for the manuscript "DNA and spores from coprolites reveal that colourful truffle-like fungi endemic to NZ were consumed by extinct moa (Dinornithiformes)"

Human footprint layer (a measure of human pressure on the environment) for New Zealand, for two time periods: 2012 and 2018. See Burge et al 2025 for further details. The 'as published' version is consistent with the global methodology (no plantation forestry) - this is v4 (but if you are using NZ mainland only, use v4A, which is cropped to mainland NZ...

Summary data on changes to data in the Plant Names Database in the following classes: the addition of new names for formal deprecation of duplicate names changes to the status of the name as preferred name or synonym for a taxon updating the origin or occurrence of a taxon within New Zealand applying changes to the classification of a taxon updating the...

Maps produced for MethaneSAT. Each dataset is an estimate of methane produced by enteric fermentation across different classes of livestock at approximately 1.5 km resolution (pixel length); this is not an equal area projection. Datasets are 12-band raster data where each band is monthly emissions (1=January). "CCTO", "CCPO" and "CCAV" refer to values of...

Metadata to support the publication: 'Population genomic analysis of Mahoenui giant wētā (Deinacrida mahoenui) reveals minimal reduction in genomic diversity following translocation'. Insect Conservation and Diversity. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12810. Mahoenui giant wētā were sampled at the source population in the Mahoenui giant wētā Scientific...