South Island Penguins – Nature and Conservation Tours
The Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust and the West Coast Penguin Trust, in association with Nature Quest, are presenting two trips for nature enthusiasts in September focused on penguins and penguin conservation.
Nature Quest is a small nature tourism business, established in 1988. Group sizes will be small, a maximum of 14, and will be led by an ornithologist with over 20 years leading nature tours.
This will be a perfect opportunity to become more acquainted with penguins and penguin conservation projects in the South Island. Trips will last 10 days with the optional extra of extending to Stewart Island. They will take in the West Coast – blue penguins in the Charleston area, and further south, plus Fiordland crested penguins with the West Coast Penguin Trust, and yellow-eyed penguins in Otago and Southland with the YEPT, including a visit to the Dunedin Wildlife Hospital.
You will hear all about work behind the scenes by the Trusts and the hospital, hearing from managers and rangers and recognised experts in the world of penguin conservation.
A baseline fee plus all profits from the trips will go towards the West Coast Penguin Trust and the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust.
Trips depart in September 2021. For further details, see the trip brochure or please contact nature@naturequest.co.nz
This is a fabulous opportunity for penguin enthusiasts and for the West Coast Penguin Trust and our friends at the Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust.
