News Archive

Bumper year for Westland petrels!

5th December, 2017

Westland petrel chicks are fledging now and the annual chick check found high survival rates … and chunky chicks.

5th December, 2017

As the penguin breeding season comes to a close, the sooty shearwaters are preparing for their own breeding season and the Trust is installing new traps to help.

18th December, 2017

Subantarctic island seabirds were monitored on an expedition four years ago and the findings, showing some decline, have just been published.

31st December, 2018

The West Coast Penguin Trust is delighted and hugely proud to share the news that our Chair and Scientist, Kerry-Jayne Wilson, has been awarded MNZM – Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit – in the New Year’s Honours for services to seabird conservation.

“No one achieves anything alone – seabird work is a very collegial environment. I work with the West Coast Penguin Trust, the Australasian Seabird Group and many other colleagues” she said. Read more

Productive research trip draws to a close

13th January, 2014

KerryJayne Wilson reports that the ship, the Aurora Australis (photo from digplanet.com), will set sail for Hobart soon, leaving Antarctica behind. “This is one of the most productive research expeditions I have had the privilege to take part in” she writes.

26th August, 2014

The West Coast Penguin Trust celebrated the symbolic closing of its 2.6km penguin protection fence on Friday with great pride.

7th September, 2014

The blue penguin census is a great opportunity to get out onto your local beach and get to know it a little better!

17th September, 2014

The West Coast Penguin Trust has just embarked on an exciting new project to establish the predators that are contributing to the decline of the threatened Fiordland crested penguins.

24th October, 2014

Following a quick scan of the images from WCPT cameras within the Fiordland crested penguin (tawaki) nesting area at Jackson Head, it seems that there are plenty of possums and rats about.