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Browse our collection of previous posts.
4th October, 2017
Lucy Waller, Education Ranger, has been working with local schools as they make the most of the Trust’s educational resource.
2nd October, 2017
It’s back and it’s better! The penguin count took a break last year, but it is back and you can help by taking a morning walk on your beach and recording any penguin tracks or other penguin observations in the NatureWatchNZ (iNaturalist) app.
4th September, 2017
The West Coast Penguin Trust and The Tawaki Project have been working together for the past three years and have recently formed The Tawaki Coalition to present a single voice for tawaki to our new conservation partners, Wellington Zoo and Taronga Zoo (Sydney).
15th August, 2017
With input from the Trust, Buller High School senior science teacher, Erica Jar, has developed class notes for the Year 10 ecology curriculum that focus on local wildlife - blue penguins.
12th July, 2017
While light pollution is a growing concern around the world, a wide ranging three year study funded by the European Union, including a “global review of seabird mortality in relation to land-based artificial lights” has identified ways to minimise the negative effect of artificial lights on penguins and shearwaters. Read more
29th June, 2017
The long standing theory of penguin camouflage is debunked by scientist Dr Thomas Mattern in an excellent blog and video article.
23rd May, 2017
The West Coast Penguin Trust bases its conservation work on sound science. That science continues to underpin improved understanding of the threats facing penguins and seabirds in the region for improved conservation management, and the Annual Report, published today, updates readers on all of our projects.
12th May, 2017
Helen Armstrong recently travelled to Antarctica with Heritage Expeditions. They offer people under 30 scholarships each year so that younger people can experience a place that very few people visit. She shared this report and some photos about her trip earlier this year.
3rd May, 2017
A nationally endangered tawaki or Fiordland crested penguin named Gari, is heading to Sydney to live at Taronga Zoo, after receiving care and treatment at Wellington Zoo’s Veterinary Hospital, The Nest Te Kōhanga for over two years.
2nd April, 2017
The little or blue penguin Eudyptula minor is primarily an inshore forager generally feeding within 30 km of breeding sites during the nesting period. The Trust’s GPS foraging study is part of a wider research project and results have just been published.
