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
Tawaki Trust co-founder and patron last night has been announced winner of the prestigious Indianapolis Price for animal conservation...
A year and a half after we helped filming, tawaki coming to Netflix in "Our Planet II" on 14 June 2023...
The feature article about the expedition to the subantarctic Bounty Islands is New Zealand Geographic...
