24238 (2025). Celia Wade-Brown to the Minister of Conservation

24238 (2025). Celia Wade-Brown to the Minister of Conservation: What advice, reports, briefings, aides-memoire, or any other documents, if any, has the Minister or any member of their Office received from the Department of Conservation on community engagement and community organisation doing pest and weed control, predator trapping and other vital work, by title and date?

Hon Tama Potaka: The Department of Conservation works with iwi, hapū and community organisations on an array of conservation matters. I receive a wide range of advice relating to community engagement and community organisations, including on specific work programmes, localised issues, funding and meeting requests. The titles of reports, briefings, and aides-memoire that I receive from the Department of Conservation are proactively released and publicly available on the DOC website: https://www.doc.govt.nz/news/open-government-and-official-information/advice-to-ministers/