Current and older news
Browse our collection of previous posts.
5th November, 2015
Kerry-Jayne Wilson, Trust Chair, has just returned home and sent this report “after five delightful days with penguins on Motuara Island in the outer reaches of Queen Charlotte Sound”.
1st November, 2015
Many of the regular participants were out again for the annual blue penguin census recently. The number of penguin tracks heading out before dawn were up in all but one of the locations visited this year.
25th October, 2015
The DOC office in Haast, closest to Fiordland crested penguins (tawaki), has produced handy information sheets describing the life of and threats to these penguins.
20th October, 2015
Craig Potton will present his personal account of penguin encounters around the Southern hemisphere at a fundraising event for the Trust at Hokitika’s Regent Theatre on Friday 27th November, followed by a rare landscape masterclass on Saturday 28th November.
10th October, 2015
The West Coast Penguin Trust invites anyone on the coast this weekend (9-12 October) to find out whether penguins live on their beach.
24th September, 2015
The annual blue penguin census, where Coasters get out onto their local beach and look for penguin tracks, will take place a little later this year, around 9-12 October.
20th September, 2015
We’re delighted to report that the Trust has been successful in its bid for funding from DOC’s Community Conservation Partnerships Fund! Read more
23rd August, 2015
Spring is springing all around us and penguins up and down the coast are likely to be incubating eggs.
6th August, 2015
An injured penguin found beside the highway at Awatuna in late July was found to have been attacked by a cat.
9th May, 2015
At last night’s 4th West Coast Leading Light Business Excellence Awards, MC’d by TV One’s Peter Williams, the Trust was very proud to be named winner in both its categories.
