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...
Witness the first successful camera deployment on a breeding tawaki from Milford Sound.
After three years, we finally got the research permits for the subantarctic...
We managed to get the transponder gate back out this weekend...
