Every year, the Trust compiles its achievements, hopes and thanks into an Annual Report from the Chair. This year, Trust Chair, Reuben Lane, looks back on his first year in the role. Highlights include a successful application to the Department of Conservation Community Fund, giving the Trust three years of security with around 56% of […]
The West Coast Penguin Trust has been successful in its applications for funding from the Birds New Zealand Research Fund (BNZRF) this year. The fund mainly supports logistic costs and equipment and we sought support for our blue or little penguin foraging study based in Charleston, and our study of tawaki or Fiordland crested penguins […]
We have been asked for a way to be a member, a supporter or an annual donor, and we have now come up with a means of joining us to ensure that penguins survive and thrive on the West Coast. For a minimum donation of just $50 a year you’ll become a Supporter, or, for […]
After six years of exciting and evolving research, The Tawaki Project has released a summary report noting varied foraging ecology and population dynamics across the breeding range. The project’s research revealed that the penguins show highly adaptable at-sea behaviour allowing them to forage successfully in open pelagic (West coast), constricted fjord ecosystems (Milford Sound/Piopiotahi), as […]
Robin Long – Tawaki Ranger and Trustee with the West Coast Penguin Trust and volunteer with The Tawaki Project – speaks about the tawaki, or Fiordland crested penguin, in this talk published on Vimeo this week, sharing the results of work she has carried out or been involved in over the past 10 years, especially […]
The NZ Penguin Initiative is all about penguin conservation action and has just released its fourth quarter report after a busy year. On top of work with tawaki and Erect-crested penguins, the NZPI has worked with the West Coast Penguin Trust to learn more about the foraging of blue penguins and to learn more about […]
DOC Community Fund grants have just been announced and the West Coast Penguin Trust is delighted to have been granted funds to support three years of work. Trust Manager, Inger Perkins, said the almost full approval of the Trust’s application demonstrates DOC’s confidence in the Trust. “We are thrilled with this outcome. The confidence shown […]
For the first time in a long time, the West Coast Penguin Trust will be in Westport this Friday to deliver an update on our projects and Kerry-Jayne Wilson will present a not to be missed talk for all penguin lovers “The World of Penguins”. Talks start at 7.00pm, Friday 15th November at REAP Hall, […]
Trust Tawaki Coalition partner, Dr Thomas Mattern/The Tawaki Project, has just released his report following five years of field work studying the Fiordland crested penguin or tawaki across their range, from Jackson Head in South Westland, via Harrison Cove in Milford Sound to Codfish Island/Whenua Hou. Since 2014, Dr Mattern and his team have been […]
Kerry-Jayne Wilson MNZM and Dr Thomas Mattern have completed a comprehensive review of the state of NZ penguins and it has been released today. “This is a review of all that we know, and don’t know about all six NZ penguins, with a list of research and conservation management priorities for each species” said Kerry-Jayne. […]
