Hello,
This is an invitation to you to become a Trust Supporter through the simple process of an annual donation.
We have been asked for a way to be a member, a supporter or an annual donor, and we have now come up with a means of joining us to ensure that penguins survive and thrive on the West Coast.
For a minimum donation of just $50 a year you'll become a Supporter, or, for a one-off donation of $500, a Supporter for Life.
Supporting us in this way directly ensures that our research and practical projects to protect penguins and their habitat continue.
Through our monitoring of blue penguins and tawaki, we are constantly learning about threats to their survival so that we can take and promote the best possible practical solutions. For example the penguin protection fence project was in response to knowledge gained from monitoring blue penguins and maintaining our mortality database over several years and we'll be launching a new coastal wildlife and dog control awareness campaign soon based on clear evidence we have collected. In addition, we have gained invaluable knowledge of the threat posed by stoats to tawaki and we'll be developing that understanding over the coming breeding season to better inform conservation management actions for this species.
Becoming a Supporter means not only that you'll be helping us take the lead on penguin conservation, but one lucky Supporter will win something very special in an annual draw.
For the first year, our Patron, Craig Potton MNZM, has kindly donated a stunning framed print of one of his beautiful photographs. This one is entitled 'Blue Lake II' and we'll make the draw and give this gorgeous print away when we have thirty new Supporters, so don't delay!