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

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

Help us save New Zealand’s nationally endangered yellow-eyed penguins The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust has partnered with FLOAT – For Love Of All Things, to create awareness and raise funds for nationally endangered yellow-eyed penguins. We’re selling t-shirts and hooded sweatshirts from Tuesday 10th April 2018 for 1 week through FLOAT’s online shop www.float.org/yept.  For every...Continue

The 2018 Oamaru Penguin Symposium will be held in Oamaru, New Zealand, on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th of May 2018. The Oamaru Penguin Symposium is a biennial meeting attended by researchers, volunteers, field workers, students and rehabilitators from all types of organisations. The symposium began in the late 1990’s as the “Blue Penguin Scientific Symposium” to...Continue

In early February, photographer Murdo Macleod from The Guardian, visited Dunedin to document the ongoing work to protect the endangered yellow-eyed penguin / hoiho. Murdo spent time with Trust Field Manager David McFarlane and Nursery Supervisor Louise Ashton, along with researchers from University of Otago, vet and rehab teams from Wildlife Hospital Dunedin and Penguin...Continue

The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust is holding our Annual Meeting on Tuesday 27th March at 6pm, level 1, John Wickliffe House, 265 Princes St, Dunedin. Agenda: Apologies Minutes of 2017 General Meeting Annual Report Financial Report General Business Election of Trustees All welcome, please RSVP to enquiries@yeptrust.org.nz...Continue