Kaikoura Wildlife Centre Trust

The Kaikōura Wildlife Centre Trust is committed to wildlife protection and marine ecosystem health:

PURPOSE

✓ To project manage the vision to implement wildlife hospital and conservation services in Kaikōura, enabling a stronghold for wildlife care in the upper South Island.

✓ 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 natural environment for future generations.

OUR WORK

✓ Seabird Emergency Response (Hundreds of patients rescued annually)

✓ Wildlife Hospital Vision (Fundraising for Stage 1)

✓ Preventative Care (In-situ supplemental feeding of starving penguins)

✓ Habitat Protection (Developing penguin reserves as safe zones)

✓ Native Plant Nursery (Seeds and seedlings grown for habitat restoration)

✓ Predator Control (Northern and southern traplines on the Kaikōura Peninsula)

✓ Education (Community and visitor biodiversity presentations)

✓ Advocacy (National frameworks and policy changes)

✓ Research (Informing knowledge gaps in foraging ecology)

✓ Consultation (Wildlife consultation for infrastructure and development)

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