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NEW ZEALAND
DONATION
If you are based in New Zealand, click on the donate button below, where you will be directed to our Givealittle page, our secure New Zealand site for making a donation to Penguin Rescue.

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INTERNATIONAL
DONATION

If you are based in a country outside New Zealand, click on the donate button below, where you will be directed to Paypal, our secure international site for making a donation to Penguin Rescue

Or you can also direct debit to our Kiwibank Wellington account:
38-9016-0481348-01

Thank you for considering to donate to Penguin Rescue. Your donation helps support a variety of projects - see below for more details.

Sponsor a (breeding) adult, juvenile, egg or chick
Sponsor or buy a house and have your name on it
Sponsor a sick, starving or injured penguin in our rehabilitation facility
Buy a tree to give shade to a hot penguin
Buy a micro-chip for a penguin so it can be identified

2023 calendars available.
Simply deposit NZ$20 per calendar in any of the options below then email your name and address to: rosaliegoldsworthy@gmail.com
Or fill out the form

Plants for penguin habitat

Sponsorship

Name an adult or juvenile Yellow-eyed penguin: $150

You can name a breeding adult or a juvenile Yellow-eyed penguin resident in the colonies cared for by the volunteers of Penguin Rescue. You receive a certificate by e-mail with its ancestry as far as known and occasional updates will be posted on our Facebook page and the Facebook blog on this website.

Adult

Juvenile

Name a Yellow-eyed penguin egg or chick: $50
(available between late November and mid February)

You can name a Yellow-eyed penguin egg or chick being raised in the colonies cared for by the volunteers of Penguin Rescue. You receive a certificate by e-mail with its ancestry as far as known and occasional updates will be posted on our Facebook page and the Facebook blog on this website. Please let us know what you want to call your sponsored penguin chick.

4-week old chick

Egg(s)

3-month old chicks

Name any penguin house: $150

And it is yours for the lifetime of the box. For $150 you can have your name painted on a penguin nesting box. We do not guarantee that your box is being used at the time of sponsorship or that it will be in the future. But if we find a penguin in or near your box we will endeavour to take a photo and post it on FB. If you do not want this, please let us know at the time of donating. Please send us a message with your donation with the name you want on the box.

An A-frame nest box provides privacy in the forest.

A rectangular box for the grazed paddock provides shade.

Sponsor a starving, sick or injured penguin

On average each penguin needs $5 worth of food and medication each day when it is at our rehabilitation facility. On average each penguin stays about 3 weeks although it can be much longer depending on the reasons it needs care. At Penguin Rescue rehab facility we prefer to feed salmon (20cm long) as this enables a penguin to gain 1kg per week once it has been cured of any sickness and any wounds are healing.
You can sponsor a penguin for its stay in rehab for $150 - and you can name it too. We will send you details and post updates on FB.

The next meal is set out ready for feeding time.

Chicks being fed in rehab to relieve struggling parents.

Juveniles getting a helping hand to fatten up for the annual moult.

Buy a tree to give shade to a penguin $50

Yellow-eyed penguins can spend days and even weeks in the cold ocean but on land they can overheat on sunny summer days and like to sit in a bit of shade. While our nest boxes provide this we also plant many trees and you can contribute to this habitat restoration by purchasing a tree. It will get planted in our penguin colony with fertilizer tablets and is fitted with a protective ring to prevent rabbits or sheep from eating it. If required we will also water it to ensure its survival. We have a great variety of trees - let us know if you have a specific wish - maybe we have it in our nursery and can oblige!!

Buy one micro-chip: $12

Every breeding adult, every chick and every penguin in rehab are marked with a transponder or chip that has a unique 12 digit number. They are inserted with a needle under the skin in the neck of the penguin and are read with a transponder reader. This allows us to identify each penguin and record its history providing vital data on breeding success and survival.