Kaikoura Wildlife Centre Trust
Improving conservation outcomes for Kaikōura's at-risk species by facilitating wildlife care in a global biodiversity hotspot
Kaikoura, Canterbury
The Kaikōura Wildlife Centre Trust is an unfunded volunteer managed charity focused on wildlife care and marine ecosystem health in a global biodiversity hotspot:
PURPOSE
✓ To project manage the vision to implement wildlife hospital and conservation services in Kaikōura, enabling a stronghold for wildlife care.
✓ To provide professional wildlife care in a global seabird capital, facilitating a critical environmental and community service to enable the preservation of threatened species.
MISSION
✓ To aid wildlife recovery through rescue, veterinary treatment, rehabilitation, habitat protection, education, advocacy and research.
✓ To enable the wider community to protect, restore and enhance our environment for future generations.
OUR WORK
✓ Seabird Emergency Response (Hundreds of patients rescued annually)
✓ Captive Rearing (Artificial incubation and chick rearing)
✓ Kaikōura Wildlife Hospital vision (Fundraising for Stage 1)
✓ Preventative Care (Supplemental feeding of starving penguins)
✓ Habitat Protection (Implementing penguin reserves)
✓ Native Plant Nursery (Habitat restoration)
✓ Predator Control (3km Kaikōura Peninsula trapline)
✓ Stray Cat Trapping (Transfer to cat rescues)
✓ Desexing & Microchipping Pet Cats (Grants for low income households)
✓ Sustainability Education (Community and visitor biodiversity presentations)
✓ Advocacy (Policy changes)
✓ Research (Knowledge gaps in foraging ecology)
✓ Consultation (Infrastructure development wildlife impacts)
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More about us
Improving conservation outcomes for Kaikōura's at-risk species by facilitating wildlife services in a site of international importance.
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Latest update
Project BlueBird 10 July 2025
Beyond founding Project WellBird to progress the Kaikōura Wildlife Hospital vision, the Trust established Project BlueBird to provide urgent preventative care and habitat protection to Little Penguins/Kororā, including ongoing emergency care. The only remaining colony is receiving effective protection, with the Trust developing reserves to safeguard remnant pairs. The Trust is focused on directly aiding endangered White-Flippered Penguins and declining Blue Penguins, which are on the brink of local extinction in Kaikōura.
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Thank you very much for your support Bernie, your donation is greatly appreciated.
Many thanks Karen for your donation support towards wildlife care.
Thank you Georgette for supporting the Trust via the sale of greeting cards. You are immensely talented and make a meaningful difference by giving back to nature. Thank you for raising funds for charities via Georgette Thompson Art.
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