Hoiho, hoiho, it’s raising cash we go
When is a $5 note worth more than $5? When the Reserve Bank of New Zealand takes one straight off the printing press, frames it and couriers it to your doorstep. Or at least that is what the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust is banking on. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has given the trust one…
Doc funding boost for Otago projects
Several Otago conservation projects will receive a $334,000 financial boost from the Department of Conservation in the latest round of Community Conservation Partnership Fund grants. Associate Conservation Minister Nicky Wagner announced yesterday the Landscape Connection Trust would receive $120,000 to help continue conservation efforts for threatened species and indigenous forests across 55,000ha of Otago land….
A sobering story…
A new study finds that the world’s seabird populations have plummeted by almost 70% in just 60 years. Every day for sixty million years, seabirds have performed mind-boggling acts of derring-do: circumnavigating the globe without rest, diving more than 200 meters in treacherous seas for a bite of lunch, braving the most unpredictable weather on…
Media Release – Cruise for a Cause aides the penguins
Doubtful Sound came up trumps yet again for last weekend’s Real Journeys’ Cruise-for-a-Cause and its chosen charity, the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust. The persistent drizzle, Fiordland is a rain forest after all, was just what was needed to produce a totally memorable atmosphere for this shake-down cruise in preparation for the start of the new tourist…
Buster the penguin gets a new lease on life
A yellow-eyed penguin is ready to return to the wild after life-saving care that included a toe amputation at Wellington Zoo. The endangered hoiho – nicknamed Buster- was taken to the zoo's The Nest Te KÅhanga facility after suffering a bite to the foot. The injury caused severe bone and tissue damage, and infection of…
Ambitious plans for Long Point reserve
A predator fence and onsite accommodation are being considered for Long Point/Irahuka as the Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust focuses its attention on its biggest yellow-eyed breeding site this year. The trust wanted to make a ''big investment'' at its roughly 70ha Catlins reserve, which it bought in 2009, the trust's field manager, Dave McFarlane, said. ''It's…
