After another expedition to the sub-antarctic Bounty and Antipodes Islands came to a close in late December 2024, the team dove head first into reporting season. And as with the previous expedition, the amount of new information gathered was once again massive so that the resulting report approached the dimensions of a novella. There is...
In late June and early July, our chair, Thomas Mattern, traveled to Switzerland for the inaugural Zoo Zürich Conservation Academy workshop. The Zoo Zürich Conservation Academy is organized and run by Zoo Zürich, comprising researchers and conservationists working on projects that align with the zoo’s principal regional exhibits. Zoo Zürich employs an ‘ecosystem’ approach, displaying...
How we count penguins on drone images - with the help of netizens...
Our work in the subantarctic region relies heavily on the use of drones. But surveying penguin colonies with flying cameras is only a third of the job done. Another third is processing these data into massive aerial photos (aka “orthomosaics”) that allow us to count penguins. And this is why our partnership with DroneDeploy is...
During the past two expeditions to the subantarctic islands, our team was joined by journalists from both Radio New Zealand and NZ Geographic. During the 2022 expedition, NZ Geographic publisher James Frankham and award winning photographer Richie Robinson documented our work on the Bounty Islands, while in January 2024, Claire Concannon came along when the...
The first episode of Radio New Zealand's coverage of the Tawaki Project's subantarctic expeditions 2023/24 is out...
Tawaki/Fiordland penguins are about to join the ranks of New Zealand wildlife that can be observed virtually in their natural habitat...
Help us get a live streaming system for to allow everyone to observe tawaki 27/7...
The Tawaki Project/Tawaki Trust has just launched a cord funding campaign that aims at establishing a live video feed from one of the Milford Sound/Piopiotahi tawaki colonies. We have teamed up with the Urban Wildlife Trust who have established several iconic live video streams such as the Royal Albatross cam and more recently the Kākāpō...
"It's mysterious. And shy. Fiordland's Tawaki penguin. The jungle penguin." - Sir David Attenborough
