29/08/2026
Weāve tried contacting Stuff Media about this, along with the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust, because we are genuinely deeply concerned about what is happening.
And so far⦠silence.
The next time you hold a $5 note, have a look at the other side.
Youāll see Sir Edmund Hillary.
We donāt want the yellow-eyed penguin to become something we only see on a banknote because we failed to protect it.
Dead and gone is not good enough.
At Glopac, weāre not going to be told to go away or sit quietly on the sidelines.
Weāre about to show you how you can actually make a difference.
This is bigger than packaging.
Stay tuned.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1619218653547793&id=100063790201208
š§ There are just 117 breeding pairs of hoiho remaining in New Zealand, making them the rarest penguin the world.
šŖ¦ The taonga species, only found in Aotearoa, are facing climate change, starvation, disease and fishery by-catch deaths.
š£ Department of Zoology PhD candidate Thor Ruru-Elley is using on-bird cameras to see what hoiho are facing in the ocean. He is also using GPS trackers on 100-day-old fledgling penguins as they enter the water for the first time, to better understand why 80 per cent never make it back to land.
š£ His findings show the birds are travelling far beyond the area covered by the Otago Peninsula set net ban ā up to hundreds of kilometres along the coast between KaikÅura and Stewart Island-Rakiura.
āIt's somewhat confronting in the footage when you go from hoiho foraging in kelp forests and protected areas to places that have been dredged ā places that don't have anything on the seafloor anymore,ā Thor says.
Visit Stuff to learn more about the fight to save this New Zealand icon before itās too late š
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361021216/samantha-hayes-just-326-hoiho-remain-can-new-zealand-save-its-most-endangered-penguin
Zoology Department, University of Otago - new