The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust / Te Tautiaki Hoiho seeks a highly motivated person to lead the organisation. Due to a retirement, this unique opportunity has arisen for a new General Manager to lead our organisation and implement our strategic direction. The Trust’s work focuses on both the terrestrial and marine environments where the nationally endangered…

                                        Published by the Otago Daily Times 20 January 2023 – Click on the image above for the full story….

This valuable work is heading in the right direction to help understand the challenges of diseases affecting hoiho. We know it’s only one part of the problem but it is a step forward. We were delighted to support the researchers in this important work.                      …

For seasonal management purposes, Tavora Reserve (Bobby’s Head), near Palmerston will be closed until 28th February 2023. In 1993 the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust secured this land for the purpose of improving and enhancing the breeding habitat for yellow-eyed penguin/hoiho present. At the time of purchase there were very low natural values remaining. Intensive farming practices…

Next month Gus Griffin is running the Emerson’s Dunedin Marathon to raise money for hoiho conservation. Gus is an Emerging Leader Trustee of the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust and has been volunteering with hoiho since he was a teenager. Make a donation and follow his efforts. Thanks Gus, and good luck! In 1997 there were 600…

(Vision supplied by University of Otago). (Source: 1News) Technology is being used to shed light on the elusive Stewart Island yellow-eyed penguin, and their underwater behaviour that, until now, remained a mystery. There’s a lack of research studying the hoiho, a species that has become critically endangered, according to Otago University Zoology Department researcher Thor…