31 Oct 2025

Hundreds of thousands to fix DOC damaged signs

From Midday Report, 12:42 pm on 31 October 2025

The Department of Conservation is pleading with vandals to stop targeting its signs, with repairs last year costing more than 350-thousand dollars The Department says it's green and yellow signs have been scratched, knocked over, and shot at, leaving some unreadable and needing to be replaced. DOC Strategic Asset Manager Kushla Tapper spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.