Penguin Rescue Update

Growing up in a boxthorn bush

​Hello friends and family
These are busy times and on Tuesday, the team came out and we began the process of doing the blood screening for the chicks. With only 11 chicks in the wild, we were able to get this done in a timely way, the rain held off and the chicks behaved nicely. 

​In the afternoon, the French filming crew arrived; this was Florine the videographer, Louis the sound technician and Anna the star. They will be here for a time to produce an educational documentary, part of Penguin Rescues goals – education about the plight of the penguins.

How many seal pups?

​On Wednesday, Dan took the crew to Trotter’s gorge to see native bush and on Thursday, Elaine prepared the slides.

We went up the lighthouse on Wednesday

 It was wet all day Friday, which gave us a chance to examine the new government document about the rapid decline of the Yellow-eyed penguin in the northern population – here. It is 162 pages long and designed to be balked at. Fortunately, with Dan here and the help of AI, we were able to unravel the key points and have put the summary, along with the link to the original article on our website https://www.penguinrescue.nz/spatial-risk-assessment-of-threats-to-yellow-eyed-penguinhoiho.html​

Our oldest chick is thriving

​This will inform our actions over the next season and is why we uplifted the juveniles.
Things have remained quiet in the field which does simplify things!

The first Pohutukawa bloom raised from seed sourced locally

Have a great week!
Rosalie