Badger experience helping penguins at Curio
Irish ecologist Dr Chris Smal probably never envisaged advising a New Zealand conservation project about the potential use of underpasses or elevated roadways for yellow-eyed penguins, especially given that his experience to date has been with species such as badgers and deer in the northern hemisphere. However, because of a chance contact made with the…
Annual Reports
The annual reports can be downloaded below (all in PDF format): 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007…
Santa Parade
The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust made their inaugural appearance in Dunedin’s Santa Parade on Sunday 4 December 2011. Over 25 volunteers, Trust staff and supporters donned penguin costumes, yellow beaks and masks in true penguin style, and danced, skated, uni-cycled and drove mobile penguins along George Street. Up to 40,000 spectators turned out on the day…
Great effort by Fonterra staff at Long Point
Despite a promising start to the day (in spite of an atrocious forecast), the planters and Trust staff were eventually rained off around lunchtime. Some true grit and resolve were on display as the final few plants went in amid the downpour! The Edendale staff were planting at Long Point for the second time and…
Native plants for sale!
A limited number of native trees, grasses and plants are now for sale, with proceeds going to help save yellow-eyed penguins. The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust’s not for profit and community-based nursery has exceeded its planting production this year. They have approximately 500 native plants and shrubs to offload by Friday December 9, 2011. Many of…
Vote hoiho for Bird of the Year
Wade in and join me, Anton Oliver, Patron of the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust, to vote yellow-eyed penguin (hoiho) for Bird of the Year. http://www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/ Hoiho (yellow-eyed penguins) are the noisy penguins. Their name in Maori means ‘noise shouter’; their piercing calls can be heard over the crashing waves. For me there’s something really special about being…
