Volunteering/ Monthly event at Flea Bay
Once in a while we do need help in the forest and the penguin colony so check out what is and has been happening.
Trust
The aims of our trust are:
To preserve and protect New Zealand's biodiversity, fauna and flora, animals and their habitats and the environmental heritage of Pōhatu Bay and Banks Peninsula.
To undertake or facilitate the provision of education opportunities to New Zealanders of all ages on conservation.
To share information and raise awareness of conservation necessary in New Zealand to ensure the longevity of fauna and flora, marine and other wildlife for future generations.
To commission, advance and support research on conservation, fauna and flora, marine and other wildlife in New Zealand.
What We Do
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Providing habitat
Pōhatu/Flea bay has been a working farm since 1843, penguins and farm animals like sheep have been co-existing ever since.
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Penguin rehabilitation
Pōhatu Penguin Rehab.
Sometimes penguins need a bit of a helping hand, sick, injured or malnourished penguins may end up in our Rehabilitation center. With tender loving care penguins are rehabilitated and released back into the wild.
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Monitoring of a subset of the colony
A weekly monitoring of a sub-section of the colony allows us to better understand population trend and key demographic parameters.
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Tracking at sea
While kororā rely on the marine ecosystem for food, their at-sea behaviour and how they interact with the unique environment off the coast of Banks Peninsula and Canterbury is poorly understood.
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Trapping
Without taking out introduced predators, penguins would not have stood a chance to survive.
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Farming
Farming in a way that allows biodiversity to thrive
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Horomaka Kororā 2020/2022
It all started over winter when some of us sat down with the realisation that tourism was going to be low this coming year.
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Surveying the colony
Every year we monitor the same subset of the penguin colony and every 4 years the whole colony.
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Education and awareness
Pōhatu Penguins eco-tours started in 2001 to answer a need to allow the public to view penguins in the wild with the least disturbance.
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Supporting research
By monitoring nests, we are collecting observations about the penguins but also any other clues such as poo, parasites, predation marks, etc.
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On-going work and future projects
On-going and future projects
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Our funders and partners
We wish to thank all of our funders and partners. Without their contributions, time and energy - much of what we do would not be possible.
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Vlog
Get an insight in videos into the necessary conservation work that is happening at Flea bay to protect the Little penguins.
Adopt / Donate
To help us in our endeavour to protect Little penguins at Pōhatu you can get involved by choosing one of our adoption package and be kept in the loop with what is happening in our colony.
School Groups
Businesses involvements
The Kororā is a taonga species to New Zealand and the White-Flippered penguin a variant unique to Canterbury. They are also sentinels of the sea providing a barometer of the health of our ocean. Whilst our conservation work over the last 30 years has helped to grow colony numbers by protecting them and their habitat, those numbers are now starting to drop because of changes in marine environment. We need to find out what, where and why this is happening so have set up a charity to work towards this goal.
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Pōhatu school holiday program and Conservation clubLed by Conservation rangers of Pōhatu, join the fun every Friday and/or school holidays. |
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Make a DonationDonate however much you want to contribute to our conservation effort. Your donation will help fund the various projects mentioned on the left. |