Now every penguin counts… and Sniper is on an adventure to protect the critically endangered birds.

Dunedin photographer and writer Paul Sorrell writes there are many advantages to photographing wildlife at home.

Associate Profesor Janice Lord of the University of Otago Botany Dept is a passionate advocate for our native plants. Now as part of Ngā Kākano Whakahau: The Seeds Project, she’s leading a team developing ways to plant native seeds in vast areas of unproductive high country land.

Wild Dunedin presented our first Wild Hero Award to Sir Alan Mark in 2019 at Otago Museum. Born in Dunedin and living most of his life here, Sir Alan is a true local hero who has great mana throughout Aotearoa.

Wild Dunedin is lucky to have Samuel Purdie as our bug identifier.

Wild Dunedin encourages people to enjoy nature by walking in the forest, on a beach, in the mountains, in Orokonui Ecosanctuary or just around the Town Belt.

Can you tell the difference between a New Zealand sea lion/rāpoka/whakahao and a New Zealand fur deal/kekeno? Amelia Saxby from the Dunedin based NZ Sea Lion Trust says that the best way to tell the difference is from the face.

Rory Harding’s spectacular George St Orchard in the heart of Dunedin demonstrates how much food you can grow in 300 square metres.

“People are realising that we’ve been cutting down native forest and draining wetlands for the last 150 years and it’s time to put something back. It’s captured the popular imagination.” Phil Dunn of Ribbonwood Nurseries

Ruth Vaughan of Wild Dispensary loves how our backyard provides an abundance of plants to help us stay healthy.

New Zealand is home to more penguin species than any other country - of the 18 species in the world, 13 of them can be found in New Zealand. Dunedin launched the first International Penguin Conference in 1988 and in August 2019 hosted 272 penguin scientists at the 10th International Penguin Conference.

Host Peter Hayden began the conversation by asking if there was a moment when they became political on the issue of freshwater. For Alan it was when a senior public servant stated that raising Lake Manapouri would ‘improve on nature’…