Education Ranger, Lucy, took a couple of trips up to St Canice’s School in Westport this term, to join them as they started their penguin project. A visit from penguin detection dog Mena started their journey off and then a classroom session from Education Ranger, Lucy, to learn more about blue penguins and their threats. […]
The West Coast Penguin Trust has maintained an active interest in the Ōkārito kororā colony since it was first surveyed in 2008 and has resurveyed the colony every few years since then. In late October Linden resurveyed the colony for the first time since 2018. Unlike most kororā colonies on the West Coast, the penguins […]
Education Ranger, Lucy Waller, joined Hokitika Primary School Ruma (room) Piwakawaka with teachers Maria and Caitlin for a field trip to the beach last week. We explored all the tracks and things to see at the beach and were lucky enough to find fresh penguin tracks leading right into their class planting site! The students […]
Catherine reports the latest on Gorge River Tawaki this season so far: “Despite the late, shaky start with some lack of egg-laying, the chicks that made it seem to be doing really well. Yesterday I saw one moving down the creek with its parent, probably ready to leave. As I couldn’t get up the creek […]
Photos have emerged of fences blocking penguins from Shelly Bay – the site developer Ian Cassels bought under the condition he looked after the kororā that nested there. Cassels has long planned a $500 million development at the former Air Force base at Shelly Bay, on the western fringe of the Miramar peninsula, but it […]
Granity School welcomed ex-local and author, Juliet Cooper for a very special visit in July. Juliet used to live in Granity, and during her time here, was inspired by the whanau of kororā (Blue Penguins) who lived under her cottage. She wrote a children’s book about them and decided to launch it back in the […]
The West Coast Penguin Trust has today been named as a finalist in both the Not For Profit and the Environment categories of the 2014 West Coast Leading Light Business Excellence Awards. […]
All are welcome at the Trust’s illustrated talks at the Heartland World Heritage Hotel, Haast on Friday at 7pm. […]
The Grey District Aquatic Centre is planning a Virtual Cook Strait Swim to raise funds for local charities. The West Coast Penguin Trust will be there and we need you! […]
The Trust has again been connecting up with children this summer and there’s more planned in the coming weeks. […]
