Membership and Donations

We have approximately 2000 members from all around the world. The fee for membership has been kept at the original level to allow members to make extra donations for the general work of the Trust or for specific projects.

• Membership
• Online Donations
• Donate-a-Tree
• General Donations
• Bequests
• Tax Rebates
• Becoming a Volunteer

Membership

You can download the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust Membership Form in PDF format (103k).

Simply join up by sending your details to the Trust Office. You can also join via our online donations site - please specify in the Message box that you wish to become a member.

Online Donations

You can make online donations via our secure fundraise online page by clicking on the Donate Now button below. Please specify in the Message box if you want your donation to go to a particular cause (e.g. donate a tree).

Donate-a-Tree

The Trust operates a nursery to grow native plants to re-establish the coastal habitat of the yellow-eyed penguin. With our Donate-a-Tree programme people can donate money via regular automatic payments, one-off donations.

To produce one tree from seed to planting out, costs approximately $3. To join up, contact the Trust Office.

Trees mean shade

Fat and feathered, the yellow-eyed penguin is insulated for fishing in the depths of the cold sea. But when the penguin is not fishing, it lives on land. Under the hot sun, the penguin swelters under its thick layer of body fat. It need the protective shelter of cool forest.

Trees mean penguin chicks

The yellow-eyed penguin is so shy that if another penguin can see its nest, it wonât produce chicks. The penguin needs forest for privacy.

No trees means no home

People have destroyed coastal forest. We milled it for wood and burned it to create farmland. The yellow-eyed penguin is one of the rarest penguins in the world and lack of forests is one of the biggest problems it faces.

All donations are greatly appreciated.

Simply join up or send your donation and details to the Trust Office. You can also make your donation online.

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General Donations

Check out the website http://www.wave4good.co.nz to see other ways the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation are continuing to support our Trust and accepting donations for our work. You can make these donations on line now!

Unspecified donations for the work of the Trust are greatly appreciated all year round.

To mail in your donation, send it to the Trust Office. You can also make your donation online.

Overseas donations can be made via credit card or cheque. Simply send us your own personal cheque, and we will have it exchanged for New Zealand currency at that particular days exchange rate.

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Bequests

Please consider remembering the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust in your will.

Managing / or purchasing penguin breeding habitat and controlling predators such as stoats and ferrets are some of the ongoing tasks undertaken by the Trust. Saving the yellow-eyed penguin is a long-term task and bequests will help secure the survival of this extraordinary and endangered species.

Please contact the Trust Office for more details.

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Tax Rebates

Donations over $5 have in the past been eligible for a tax rebate. Now your subscriptions to the YEPT are too. They will be considered donations in terms of Section KC 5(4) of the Income Tax Act 1994.

Becoming a Volunteer

Volunteers help in the nursery, raising seedlings and planting trees. They work in the office doing anything from writing articles for the newsletter, to filing to fundraising.

If you wish to register as a volunteer, contact the Trust Office.

Please note, there is no set Volunteer programme as our tasks are of short-duration, seasonal and dependent on projects undertaken at the time.

The Trust's work does not involve handling penguins. This work requires a special permit from the Department of Conservation.

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