We are so lucky here on the West Coast to have such cool, proactive and enthusiastic children and youth, tamariki and rangatahi, who give up their time and energy to help protect and advocate for our local wildlife, particularly our penguins! Whether it’s through school projects, girl guides, scouts, or volunteering, the young people of […]
We have been lucky enough to have Sarah Kivi carry out our Haast area tawaki monitoring for the past few years and these are her findings from the 2024 tawaki season… Aim of programme: To monitor 10-15 nests from both Haast colonies twice during the breeding season in order to gain a general idea of […]
Ranger, Catherine Stewart, reports on the tawaki season at Gorge River… The aim of the monitoring: Tawaki nests were monitored for survival/failure due to predation and to assess general chick growth and apparent health as an indication of food supply and marine conditions. Method: 27 nests were checked 6 times between 20/8/2024 and 28/10/2024 […]
We know next to nothing about tawaki’s marine ecology, their foraging ranges, which prey species they consume and at which water depths they forage. Critical information is missing to assess how human activities might impact on tawaki, be it ongoing climate change, fisheries activities or pollution of the marine habitat with mining effluents or oil-leaks. […]
A huge thank you to all who volunteer for us – we couldn’t do it without you! This is a special feature to acknowledge those wonderful volunteers who have helped make our field work and our education programme as good as they can be over the past year. From WCPT Ranger, Lucy Waller Scrambling through […]
The West Coast Penguin Trust has benefitted from a conservation partnership with Wellington Zoo Trust – Te Nukuao Tūroa o Te Whanganui a Tara for several years. The partnership began in 2017 founded on our shared interest in the wellbeing and improved conservation outcomes for both little penguins or kororā and Fiordland crested penguins or […]
Advocacy – speaking up for penguins An important aspect of our work is advocacy. We know that you rely on us to speak up for penguins and other threatened seabirds through a variety of processes. Te Tai Poutini Plan Most recently, Trust Manager, Inger Perkins, spoke to the commissioners working on the new regional district […]
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Our vision continues to be that “Sea and shore birds and their habitat of the West Coast Te Tai Poutini are healthy and thriving”. Our Mission is to achieve the vision through research, education, awareness, advocacy and practical projects, founded on strong science. Message from the Chair After three years as Chair, I will be handing […]
