YELLOW-EYED PENGUIN TRUST

Te Tautiaki Hoiho Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust is a not-for-profit conservation organisation with a mission to see one of the world’s rarest penguins, the hoiho, thrive in its natural environment. Found only in the South Pacific Ocean and on the coastlines and subantarctic islands of New Zealand, the hoiho are known as the ‘noise shouter’. And it is their call that drives us to protect our oceans, coastlines and biodiversity.

Since 1987 The Trust has had a comprehensive coastal conservation programme including habitat restoration, predator control, research projects, plant nursery and education.

The Trust is based in Dunedin but manages land and penguin interests across the geographical range of the penguin on the mainland of New Zealand; Banks Peninsula to Slope Point (Southland) and on Stewart Island.

Established in 1988, their plant nursery in Otago Peninsula has propagated more than 140,000 native trees and shrubs sourced from local seed. These have all been planted out in the appropriate habitat to provide more shelter and better nesting sites required by the penguins.

Thanks to the dedicated and hardworking people from the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust, with Mainland’s help, the yellow-eyed penguin has found its way into new breeding sites and into the homes, hearts and minds of all New Zealanders.

Find out more here https://yellow-eyedpenguin.org.nz/