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Minimising your impact

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Care codes

These care codes provide advice about ways you can help to ensure our natural environment remains pristine, our historic relics are preserved, and our cultural values respected. It is important to also respect the rights of other people for quiet enjoyment of the outdoors when undertaking activities.

New Zealand Environmental Care Code

To help protect the natural environment, please follow these guidelines on your visit.

New Zealand Water Care Code

Keep New Zealand's lakes, rivers, wetlands and ocean beautiful by abiding by the New Zealand Water Care Code. It’s your responsibility to know the regulations for waterways that you visit.

Activity minimal impact codes

Find out how to miminise the impact you have on the environment when you undertake activities.

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Maps

DOC maps: Discover the outdoors - DOC's key places, campsites, tracks and huts, and visitor centres on a map

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Check, Clean, Dry between waterways and stop the spread of didymo.

Safety

Follow the Outdoor Safety Code:
1. Plan your trip
2. Tell someone
3. Be aware of the weather
4. Know your limits
5. Take sufficient supplies

Contacts

DOC visitor centres

Give feedback on a recent visit to a DOC place