Trust Nursery wins Supreme Award
The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust Nursery was announced the Supreme Award winner at the Trust Power Dunedin Community Awards ceremony in Dunedin on 3rd September 2007. The Trust received $1500 and the opportunity to represent the city at the 2007 Trust Power National Community Awards in Wanaka in March next year. The trust beat 76 other…
WWF-NZ chooses Trust
The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust was chosen to be part of a WWF-New Zealand report on the social and economic benefits of community conservation projects, released 6 August to mark the start of Conservation Week. Findings from three community-led programmes showed that the simple act of planting a tree or trapping a possum creates a virtuous circle…
Almost an Island Conference programme
Please note that speakers/times are subject to change. Title: ‘Almost an Island – Valuing Otago Peninsula’ Is biodiversity conservation paying it’s way?: The social and economic benefits of conserving nature on Otago Peninsula. Registration Closing date for registrations is 30 September 2007. Click here to download a registration form THURSDAY 11TH OCTOBER Otago Peninsula tour…
Almost an Island Conference biographies
Peter Dann Peter Dann has worked as a wildlife ecologist for 25 years and published extensively on seabirds and shorebirds in Australasia. He has co-edited, with Ian Norman and Pauline Reilly, a book entitled The Penguins: ecology and management (1995) and is currently at Cambridge University working on a second book on penguins. He manages a…
Almost an Island Conference invite
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust. We warmly invite past, present and future supporters to participate in a long weekend of celebration, reflection, and looking ahead to the next twenty years. The four days from Thursday 11 October to Sunday 14 October will include public events, lectures, open days and…
Blood parasite kills last penguin chick
A blood parasite has claimed the life of Big Fluffy, the sole survivor of 32 yellow-eyed penguin chicks hatched in the monitoring area on the north-west coast of Stewart Island. Fluffy before his death The 109-day-old chick was found dead on February 28, just metres from his nest site, by Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust southern islands…
