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The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust is a community-based organisation dependent on volunteers to support its work. Opportunities for volunteering with the Trust are plenty, from governance to one-off community conservation days or regular volunteer days.

These opportunities include:

  • Become a trustee and assist in the governance of this long-established and respected conservation NGO.
  • ‘Wednesday Volunteers’ help in the nursery, raising seedlings and planting trees.
  • ‘Ranger Volunteers’ assist with all aspects of the Trust’s conservation programme including planting, weed control and reserve maintenance.
  • ‘Office Volunteers’ assist at the Trust’s Dunedin-based office doing anything from writing articles for the newsletter, to stuffing envelopes and fundraising.

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

The Trust’s volunteer work does not involve handling penguins. That work requires a special wildlife handling permit from the Department of Conservation.

We are tremendously grateful to all the volunteers for their valuable contributions to our work.

 

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NEWS & EVENTS

The latest from the YEP Trust

Join our team – Administrator

The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust’s work involves the conservation of coastal ecosystems that include yellow-eyed penguin breeding habitats. It has protected yellow-eyed penguin habitats along the Otago and Southland coastlines by establishing penguin reserves, providing fencing to protect nests from wandering stock, replanting breeding areas with native trees and shrubs produced at its own nursery (5,000...Continue

MEDIA RELEASE: Hoiho killed by dog at Long Point Reserve, Catlins

Dog owners are being warned they must take better control of their dogs following the deaths of two yellow-eyed penguins/hoiho in the Catlins if they want to help the species survive. In the past month, two of the nationally endangered birds have been attacked and killed along the Catlins coast at the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust’s...Continue

Buy a piece of history & help us help hoiho

We’ve been clearing out our store room and found all sorts of things from penguin masks and polystyrene penguin cut outs (yes really!) to NZ made t-shirts which were produced for our 20th anniversary almost 11 years ago! So now is your chance to get a piece of conservation history by purchasing an old school...Continue

Riding 3000km & raising money to support hoiho

Long time Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust supporter and volunteer Katie Underwood successfully completed the Tour Aotearoa (TA) in March, and raised over $3700 for the Trust. The 3000km bike ride from Cape Reinga to Bluff follows a combination of cycle trails, tracks, paths and lanes connected by country roads, and all participants choose a charity to...Continue

Phenomenal effort in Smaills Beach Sand dune Clean-up

During Sea Week in March, the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust staff and volunteers got involved in Our Seas Our Future’s beach clean-up. We focused on the area around Smaills Beach and were shocked at the amount of rubbish dumped just off the road side into the bushes. After Sea Week we raised the issue with Dunedin...Continue

Autumn at the nursery

It’s been a busy few months at our Trust nursery in Company Bay on the Otago Peninsula. Nursery Supervisor Louise and her team of volunteers work to raise 5000 plants every year from seeds collected locally, and once large enough, the native trees and flaxes are then planted in our reserves to provide sheltered breeding...Continue

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