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Who likes to read scientific publications? The experts perhaps. But film conveys the key messages to a broad audience...

Zoo Zürich Conservation Academy
July 29, 2024July 29, 2024
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Zoo Zürich Conservation Academy

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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...

Penguins From Above
May 19, 2024May 19, 2024
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Penguins From Above

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We are enlisting the power of the crowd to help us determine the true population size of Erect-crested penguins...

Drone Deploy spotlight
May 6, 2024May 6, 2024
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Drone Deploy spotlight

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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...

Voice of Tangaroa
March 27, 2024March 27, 2024
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Voice of Tangaroa

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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...

TawakiCam-paign halfway there
August 8, 2023February 27, 2024
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TawakiCam-paign halfway there

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Tawaki/Fiordland penguins are about to join the ranks of New Zealand wildlife that can be observed virtually in their natural habitat...

Crowdfunding TAWAKI.CAM
July 24, 2023July 25, 2023
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Crowdfunding TAWAKI.CAM

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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...

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