The Tawaki Project has been selected by Google.org as a case study showcasing how the Google for Nonprofits programme is helping small organisations amplify their impact. The feature, written by Maggie Johnson, Global Head of Google.org, and published on the official Google blog on 28 July 2026, highlights how we use Google Workspace and the...
The Tawaki Project has been named a finalist in the 2026 Canon Oceania Grants Programme, in the Environment category! The Canon Oceania Grants Programme has supported 130 community organisations across Australia and New Zealand over the past 20 years, providing technology and funding to organisations making meaningful contributions to their communities. This year’s programme offered...
Last September, we installed the second transponder gate (AWMS, or “Automated Wildlife Monitoring System”) at a tawaki cave breeding colony we call “The Hive.” Located in central Fiordland, this colony is ideal for automated monitoring like the system we’ve been running in Milford Sound since 2019: 25+ pairs breed together in a sea cave with...
The Tawaki Project’s Bounty-Antipodes Expedition 2025/26 ran from 25 November 2025 to 24 February 2026, taking the research team to two of New Zealand’s most remote subantarctic outposts – the Bounty Islands and Antipodes Island. Aboard the research vessel Evohe, the team conducted GPS tracking deployments on chick-rearing Erect-crested and Eastern Rockhopper penguins across multiple...
Who likes to read scientific publications? The experts perhaps. But film conveys the key messages to a broad audience...
After four years of planning the 2022 expedition to the subantarctic Bounty and Antipodes Islands is underway...
We are collaborating with colleagues in Chile to track Humboldt penguins...
Establishing tawaki as part of Aotearoa is vital to advocate for the protection of the species and its environment...
This morning we lost one of the greatest seabird scientists and Tawaki Trust founding trustee– Kerry-Jayne Wilson.
Unlike all other crested penguin species that live and breed on remote offshore islands in the subantarctic region, Tawaki breed in a continental environment, that is, along the southwestern coastline of Aotearoa/New Zealand. And not only that… although Tawaki only occur along a roughly 400 km stretch of coast (as the crow flies) – from...
