Conservationist, photographer, publisher and Patron of the West Coast Penguin Trust, Craig Potton has received Forest & Bird’s highest honour with his naming as a Distinguished Life Member in recognition of more than four decades’ service to conservation. […]
Category: News
Year round NatureWatch replaces census
Once a year for the past ten years, the West Coast Penguin Trust has been inviting you to take an early morning walk on the beach to count blue penguin tracks, but now you can record penguins or their tracks quickly and easily at any time of year through NatureWatch. […]
Penguin enthusiast shares Antarctic experience
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. […]
Gari the penguin prepares to fly to Sydney
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. […]
Variability in the foraging range of blue penguins
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. […]
Summer newsletter with penguins and seabird news
For Valentine’s Day, here’s our latest newsletter sharing our love for penguins! […]
Tawaki breeding success close to zero
Beech mast leads to stoats leads to breeding failure …. in the third year of the Trust’s monitoring of potential predators and predation of Fiordland crested penguins, stoats at Jackson Head have proved to be a significant threat, taking virtually all eggs or chicks during the 2016 breeding season. […]
OK year for blue penguins on the coast
The Trust’s monitoring of blue penguin nests this year in the Charleston area shows that breeding success has been a bit worse than average. […]
Good year for Cape Foulwind sooty shearwaters
Reuben Lane and Kerry-Jayne Wilson inspected sooty shearwater burrows at Cape Foulwind last Friday and breeding success looks better than ever. […]
Seabirds showcased in Cobden
The West Coast Penguin Trust has installed three new panels showcasing the seabirds that may be seen at Cobden. […]
