New Zealand Department of Conservation
The Department of Conservation (DOC) was established in 1987 following the abolition of the Department of Lands and Survey and the Forest Service.
The Department manages or administers on behalf of New Zealanders:
- National Parks and conservation parks (formerly called forest parks)
- reserves and conservation areas
- protected indigenous forests
- protected inland waters and wild and scenic rivers
- indigenous/native wildlife
- non-commercial freshwater fisheries
- historic places on conservation land
- marine reserves and protecting marine mammals offshore islands set aside for conservation
