We are very excited to share this opportunity with you. A very generous donor has offered to match donations up to $5000! With your help, we can reach $10,000 in donations between December and April. To counterbalance Black Friday, Giving Tuesday was born for the following week. It’s a day to remember and support causes […]
Our annual report always includes a message from the Trust Chair, the highlights and challenges of the previous year and our enormous thanks to all those organisations and individuals who have supported our work. This year, our Chair, Robin Long, reinforces our vision – sea and shore birds and their habitat across the West Coast […]
Considering the strong El Niño weather pattern this year, officially declared by NIWA recently having forecast it for some time, we have been relieved to see a very different story play out at South Westland tawaki colonies this season compared to 2015 , when El Niño had disastrous effects and all chicks starved. We hope […]
Dr Gerry McSweeney of Wilderness Lodge Lake Moeraki reports: Since 1989 when we opened Wilderness Lodge Lake Moeraki each year at the beginning of July we have welcomed Tawaki/Fiordland Crested Penguins returning to the Lake Moeraki coastal forests to start their 5 month breeding season. They have swum about 2,000 kilometres from their Sub-Antarctic Convergence […]
Our late great Chair, Scientist and guide, Kerry-Jayne Wilson MNZM, loved the biennial Oamaru Penguin Symposium and encouraged any of our Trust team to attend if they could. Over the years, the symposium has moved from a little or blue penguin, kororā focus, to other Aotearoa New Zealand penguins, other penguins in far off lands […]
Pension Insurance Corporation or PIC for short loves penguins and last year gave the West Coast Penguin Trust a very generous donation. This UK company has had emperor penguins at the centre of their brand from the start. Their website notes that the penguins are memorable and intrinsically appealing and of course the West Coast […]
Linden Brown joined the trust in the middle of the 2021 breeding season and, with some guidance from our previous ranger, Matt Charteris, we were delighted that he hit the ground running. Field work is his passion and he brought considerable field work experience from his monitoring roles with the Department of Conservation. Completing the […]
Tawaki wrapped up their breeding season for 2022 in late November, and it proved to be a good year. The Trust aims to monitor nests for breeding success and to determine whether there is any predation by stoats. As was the case with kororā in the Buller region, tawaki breeding started 2-3 weeks later than […]
Almost a year after she died and close to what would have been her 74th birthday, a memorial event will be held for Kerry-Jayne Wilson MNZM in Charleston on Saturday 4th March 2023. The venue will be the Charleston Goldfields Hall, 7348 Camp Street/Coast Road aka State Highway 6 and the party will start at […]
French actors-cum-reporters, Laetitia Hipp and Emmanuel Suarez, are travelling the world for three months looking for marine conservation stories to share via podcasts on the French public media service. While staying right at the beach in Waihaha bach near Fox River, they found information about the West Coast Penguin Trust and got in touch. Laetitia […]
