Kaikoura Wildlife Centre Trust

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

✓ Kaikōura Wildlife Hospital vision (Capacity building for Stage 1)

✓ Seabird Emergency Care (Hundreds of patients rescued annually)

✓ Preventative Care (Welfare monitoring, supplemental feeding and uplift of starving penguins)

✓ Captive Rearing (Artificial incubation and chick rearing)

✓ Habitat Protection (Implementing and managing reserves)

✓ Native Plant Nursery (Habitat restoration)

✓ Predator Control (Kaikōura Peninsula traplines)

✓ Stray Cat Trapping (Care and transfer to regional rescues)

✓ Sustainability Education (Community and visitor biodiversity presentations)

✓ Advocacy (Legislative changes)

✓ Research (Knowledge gaps in foraging ecology)

✓ Consultation (Infrastructure development wildlife impacts)

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