We are pleased to announce details for the 2024 Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust Annual Meeting.

Held via Microsoft Teams:

Tuesday 26 March 2024 at 5:30pm

Level 1, John Wickliffe House

265 Princes Street, Dunedin

All welcome – we invite you to join us via Teams.

Please contact admin@yeptrust.org.nz to register.

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda:

1. Apologies
2. Minutes of 2023 Annual Meeting
3. Annual Report
4. Financial Report
5. General Business
6. Election of Trustees

Once again we are excited to be teaming up with the Southern Hoiho as they compete in the eight-week competition beginning 12 July 2023.

Join us at the Edgar Centre for their home games, and help us cheer them on.

• Saturday – 15 July 2023 – 2:30pm
• Sunday – 30 July 2023 – 3:00pm
• Tuesday – 1 August 2023 – 7:30pm
• Wednesday – 16 August – 7:30pm
• Friday – 25 August – 7:30pm

#JoinTheHuddle

We are pleased to announce details for the 2023 Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust Annual Meeting.

Held via Zoom:

Tuesday 28 March 2023 at 6:30pm

Level 1, John Wickliffe House

265 Princes Street, Dunedin

All welcome – we invite you to join us via Zoom.

Please contact generalmanager@yeptrust.org.nz to register.

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda:

1. Apologies
2. Minutes of 2022 Annual Meeting
3. Annual Report
4. Financial Report
5. General Business
6. Election of Trustees

We are excited to be teaming up with the South’s new professional basketball team – The Southern Hoiho.
Join us at the Edgar Centre for their home games, and help us cheer them on.

• Sunday – 3 July 2022 – 12:30pm
• Wednesday – 20 July 2022 – 7:00pm
• Sunday – 24 July 2022 – 12:30pm
• Sunday – 7 August – 12:30pm

Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa will be made up of five regional teams, who will compete in an eight-week competition with each team playing six home and six away games. The competition will tip off from 29 June, with a Finals series scheduled for 26 August at Nelson’s Trafalgar Centre venue.

Each team has a Te Reo Māori element to their name, with their name and logo matching the league’s “to soar” theme. The league and respective team names have been supported through the creation process by BBNZ kāumatua, Dr Taku Parai (Ngāti Toa).

The five teams in this competition are:

• North: Northern(team named awaiting confirmation)
• Mid North: Whai
• Central: Tokomanawa Queens
• Upper South: Mainland Pouākai
• Lower South: Southern Hoiho

General Manager for the New Zealand Men’s and Women’s National Basketball Leagues Huw Beynon says that all five teams will play and represent an entire region, not just a single city.

“Teams will aim to have games played at multiple venues across each region, which makes the league even more accessible and allows teams to engage at a community level as well as a basketball level.”

“This helps to give young women in the region something to aspire to; having professional basketball available to them in their backyard and a platform for players to achieve their hoop dreams.”

The annual Yellow-eyed Penguin Symposium is on again for 2022.

Please note the date for this symposium is a week earlier than normal.

Date: Saturday 30 July 2022

Time: 9am – 4pm

Venue: Archway 2 Lecture Theatre (located in the Archway Building on the corner of Union Street East and Leith Walk (look for the YEPT flags along the way!)

University of Otago, Dunedin (map can be found here).

Presentations

The overall format for the day is unchanged. The morning session will focus on season reports for monitoring, research, habitat and survey work undertaken over the past year. The afternoon session will allow for longer presentations on relevant issues as required.

Please indicate on the registration form if your group would like to report and who will be speaking on behalf of your group. We will try our best to accommodate all requests to present.

We request that presenters indicate how their talk aligns to one or more actions within Te Mahere Rima Tau. The intention of this is to show the breadth of the community commitment to the conservation of this species.

COVID-19 Regulations

The University does not make masks mandatory indoors as they believe it is impractical to enforce this and it goes beyond the Government requirements for Orange Level.

However, masks are an important tool to keep ourselves and others safe in situations where physical distancing is not feasible; while case numbers remain high in our community and during the upcoming winter cold and flu season.

Whether you wear a mask or not is a personal choice; please be respectful of each other.

Catering

Morning tea and lunch will be provided as in previous years. Please indicate on your registration form if you have any dietary requirements and we will do our best to accommodate them.

Registration is staying at $35 per person and the symposium price is budgeted to cover costs only, there is no intention to make a profit.

Registration information

To register, please complete this form indicating your contact details and method of payment. If paying by direct credit, include your name and YEPT Symposium as the reference.

We can only confirm your registration once you have forwarded your registration fee or made other arrangements for payment, due to catering requirements.

Please ensure all payments are made by Wednesday 20 July 2022.

We are pleased to announce details for the 2022 Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust Annual Meeting.

Held via Zoom:

Tuesday 22 March 2021 at 6:30pm

Level 1, John Wickliffe House

265 Princes Street, Dunedin

All welcome – we invite you to join us via Zoom.

Please contact generalmanager@yeptrust.org.nz to register.

We look forward to seeing you.

Agenda:

1. Apologies
2. Minutes of 2021 Annual Meeting
3. Annual Report
4. Financial Report
5. General Business
6. Election of Trustees

The Annual Yellow-eyed Penguin Symposium is on again for 2021. Please note the venue is the same as last year.

Date: Saturday 7th August 2021

Time: 9am – 4pm

Venue: Archway 2 Lecture Theatre

Archway Building on the corner of Union Street East and Leith Walk (look for the YEPT flags along the way!)

University of Otago, Dunedin (map can be found here).

During the day there will be time for all groups who wish to have an opportunity to report on what they have done for yellow-eyed penguins / hoiho during the past year. Please indicate on the registration form if your group would like to report and who will be speaking on behalf of your group. We will try our best to accommodate all requests to present.

Please note, we have requested that presenters indicate how their talk aligns to one or more actions within Te Mahere Rima Tau. The intention of this request is to show the breadth of the community commitment to the conservation of this species.

The morning session will focus on season reports for monitoring, research, habitat and survey work undertaken over the past year, from community groups in Otago, Stewart Island / Rakiura and Codfish Island / Whenua Hou, Banks Peninsula / Te Pataka o Rakaihautu and the Sub-antarctic Islands.

The afternoon session will allow for longer presentations on relevant issues as required.

Morning tea and lunch will be provided as in previous years. Registration is staying at $35 per person and the symposium price is budgeted to cover costs only – there is no intention to make a profit.

Registration information

To register, please complete this form indicating your contact details and method of payment. If paying by direct credit, include your name and YEP SYMPOSIUM as the reference. Please note, we can only confirm your registration once you have forwarded your registration fee or made other arrangements for payment, due to catering requirements.

Please forward this to others in your networks that may be interested in attending.

We look forward to seeing you at the symposium.

The Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust and the West Coast Penguin Trust have teamed up to bring you these stunning behind the scenes fundraising tours, led by the hugely experienced Nature Quest, for our supporters.

Two trips are planned, departing from Nelson on 3rd and 16th September and have optional extensions through the Catlins and to Stewart Island.

Whichever spring departure you choose, you’ll gain unforgettable insights in the lives and challenges of our beloved penguin species, state of the art Tawaki, Kororā, and Hoiho research, and unrivalled access to the dedicated staff that make everything happen. And, of course you’ll see each species in its natural habitat, and all the while travelling through the spectacular South and Stewart Islands.

This is a fabulous opportunity for penguin lovers and a fabulous opportunity for the Trust to be involved.

Find out more including the itinerary here: Nature Quest Penguin Trusts Fundraising Trips 2021, and you can contact Nature Quest via nature@naturequest.co.nz or on 021 680 524.

1. Apologies
2. Minutes of 2020 Annual Meeting
3. Annual Report
4. Financial Report
5. General Business
6. Election of Trustees

During the day there will be time for all groups who wish to have an opportunity to report on what they have done for yellow-eyed penguins / hoiho during the past year. Please indicate on the registration form if your group would like to report and who will be speaking on behalf of your group. We will try our best to accommodate all requests to present.

Registration is $35 per person.

To register, please complete this form indicating your contact details and method of payment. If paying by direct credit, include your name and YEP SYMPOSIUM as the reference. Please note, we can only confirm your registration once you have forwarded your registration fee or made other arrangements for payment, due to catering requirements

We are pleased to announce the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust Annual Meeting will be held on Tuesday 24th of March 2020.

Time: 6:00pm

Venue:Level 1, John Wickliffe House, 265 Princes Street Dunedin

Agenda as follows:

1. Apologies
2. Minutes of 2019 Annual Meeting
3. Annual Report
4. Financial Report
5. General Business
6. Election of Trustees

We look forward to seeing you.

Saturday 3th August 2019

Saturday 1st – Monday 3rd June 2019 – Brentwood Hotel, Kilbirnie, Wellington

This 80th celebratory conference aims to continue the fine work of previous events in making this the premier New Zealand conference for the communication of new research findings on New Zealand birds and for providing opportunities for discussion and networking for professional ornithologists, students and others who are interested in birds and their habitats.

We look forward to hearing from several keynote lectures of a diversity of topics, including Wellington birds, Auckland Islands, old bones and ancient DNA, genetics and taxonomy, physiology and reproduction, and seabirds. We hope that a range of shorter talks will describe studies on a wide range of topics and in doing so we look forward to bringing together researchers and all who are interested to share their knowledge and findings to make this conference a dynamic, informative and memorable event.

The conference will comprise two days of scientific presentations and five field trip options. The Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday afternoon, 1st June.

There are limited spaces – register now!

The 2018 Oamaru Penguin Symposium will be held in Oamaru, New Zealand, on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th of May 2018.

The Oamaru Penguin Symposium is a biennial meeting attended by researchers, volunteers, field workers, students and rehabilitators from all types of organisations. The symposium began in the late 1990’s as the “Blue Penguin Scientific Symposium” to provide information to the community about the effects of tourism on the blue penguins at the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony. The symposium grew to include other New Zealand penguin species, with recent years seeing the inclusion of penguin species from outside New Zealand. To continue the growth of the meeting and to provide an opportunity for discussions about other seabird species, the penguin symposium is open to include presentations on all aspects of seabird biology and conservation. The aim is to encourage participation from a wide variety of seabird researchers and enthusiasts. This year we will also look to hold workshops during the meeting, please let us know if you have suggestions for these.

Venue:  The venue is the Oamaru Opera House with the day meetings held in the O.D.T Inkbox Theatrette.

Registration:  The cost is $145 per person to attend, which includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea both days. Attendance for one day only will be $80.  A field trip visiting both the nearby yellow-eyed penguin colony and the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony is included.

Dinner will be held in Oamaru’s historic precinct at Housekeepers Function centre in the Loan & Merc building. The cost for the two-course dinner is $45 per person.

Register either by emailing the convenor, Philippa Agnew, or online at the website.

Saturday 4th August 2018

Saturday 24th – Wednesday 28th August 2019

The International Penguin Conferences (IPC) are the primary gathering of the world’s leading scientists, research managers and policy makers working on penguin biology, ecology, health and behaviour to discuss ongoing research, identify current and emerging conservation issues and create action plans. It’s a unique opportunity to bring together disparate groups of people with a common interest in penguins; the connections they make have often proved most fruitful and have led to some exciting collaborations.

The 10th International Penguin Conference will be held in the St David Theatre Complex of the University of Otago and will begin with an icebreaker the evening before. The proposed key themes for this conference are (but are not limited to): Fisheries interactions; Climate Change; The role of indigenous people (perspectives from different cultures) and Diseases.

There are optional field trips offered and a conference dinner will be held on the last night.

www.penguin-conference.com

www.facebook.com/PenguinConference/

ipc10.dunedin@gmail.com