Autumn at the nursery
It’s been a busy few months at our Trust nursery in Company Bay on the Otago Peninsula. Nursery Supervisor Louise and her team of volunteers work to raise 5000 plants every year from seeds collected locally, and once large enough, the native trees and flaxes are then planted in our reserves to provide sheltered breeding…
Yellow-eyed penguins / hoiho need your help!
Help us save New Zealand’s nationally endangered yellow-eyed penguins The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust has partnered with FLOAT – For Love Of All Things, to create awareness and raise funds for nationally endangered yellow-eyed penguins. We’re selling t-shirts and hooded sweatshirts from Tuesday 10th April 2018 for 1 week through FLOAT’s online shop www.float.org/yept. For every…
Saving the yellow-eyed penguin
In early February, photographer Murdo Macleod from The Guardian, visited Dunedin to document the ongoing work to protect the endangered yellow-eyed penguin / hoiho. Murdo spent time with Trust Field Manager David McFarlane and Nursery Supervisor Louise Ashton, along with researchers from University of Otago, vet and rehab teams from Wildlife Hospital Dunedin and Penguin…
Trust Annual Meeting
The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust is holding our Annual Meeting on Tuesday 27th March at 6pm, level 1, John Wickliffe House, 265 Princes St, Dunedin. Agenda: Apologies Minutes of 2017 General Meeting Annual Report Financial Report General Business Election of Trustees All welcome, please RSVP to enquiries@yeptrust.org.nz…
Sea Week & Dunedin Coastal Clean-up
In partnership with Our Seas Our Future, Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust staff and volunteers recently took part in the Dunedin Coastal Clean-up as part of our local Sea Week activities. On a beautiful, sunny Dunedin Saturday, our team gathered at Smaill’s Beach and combed the beach and sand dune area for rubbish. While the beach was…
Yellow-eyed penguin breeding update from Rakiura & Whenua Hou
The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust has continued our monitoring program at selected yellow-eyed penguin breeding sites on Rakiura / Stewart Island and Whenua Hou / Codfish Island. Trust contractor Sandy King says it is a mixed bag of results with nest numbers down across all sites. As released in December, the most concerning decline has been…
