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Details Codfish Island or Whenua Hou is a small island (14 km²) located to the west of Stewart Island/Rakiura in southern New Zealand. It is a predator-free bird sanctuary and the focus of kakapo recovery efforts, with the majority of the breeding population currently located on this island. It is also home to southern short-tailed…
Auckland Islands trip 2009
The Auckland Islands, at latitude 50 degrees south, are the largest of New Zealand’s subantarctic islands, with over 500 km of coastline, much of it steep and inaccessible to penguins and people, particularly on the exposed western side. Uninhabited now, the main island was once farmed by a hardy few, whose legacy is feral cats…
E-Waste day a success for Trust
[singlepic id=232 w=186 h=140 float=left]Volunteers from the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust teamed up with Cartridge World at eDay, on Saturday 12 September 2009, collecting printer cartridges for recycling or re-filling. Dunedin residents supplied 36 tonnes of waste, with 621 cars going through the waste collection site at Fryatt Street between 9am and 3pm. Dunedin-based Cartridge World…
Oamaru Penguin Symposium
The 7th Oamaru Penguin Symposium will be held on the 24th and 25th June 2010 at the usual venue of the Brydone Hotel in Oamaru. Further details will be circulated via the mailing list and at http://oamaru.penguin.net.nz when available. In the meantime, pencil those dates into your calendars and start thinking about the titles of…
Public urged to return printer cartridges
Hoiho, the yellow-eyed penguin, is teaming up with Fill McCartridge on eDay, this Saturday 12 September 2009, to collect printer cartridges for recycling or re-filling and help save the environment. Dunedin-based Cartridge World is proud to support the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust by giving reward points to the Trust for printer cartridges being returned during eDay…
Party at Pacific Blue’s inaugural flight
A penguin party took place today when Pacific Blue began flying non-stop between Brisbane and Dunedin this morning. Celebrating Dunedin’s unique wildlife, Pacific Blue’s inaugural flight saw three human penguins auction $2,000 worth of prizes. Proceeds will go to the Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust, the Dunedin-based charity charged with conserving arguably the world’s rarest penguin…
