Conservation groups are calling on the government to put an emergency fishing ban in place to save one of the world's rarest penguins, the hoiho yellow-eyed penguin, as a knife-edge breeding season ...

Sassy, hardy, and vicious: that’s how yellow-eyed penguins are fondly described by the people who spend their days working with them. “(They) aren’t as cute and cuddly as they look,” says Jason van ...

Researchers hope a study into how hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin) foraging grounds overlap with commercial fisheries and marine protected areas will help better protect the unique penguin. The paper, ...

The hoiho yellow-eyed penguin has won Te Manu Rongonui o Te Tau Bird of the Year 2024. Hoiho, securing a decisive victory with 6,328 votes, wears the coveted crown atop its golden head for the second ...

The High Court has dismissed an environmental charity's claim that an emergency ban on set net fishing around Otago Peninsula didn't go far enough to protect hoiho. The Environmental Law Initiative ...

A shy yellow-eyed bird known as the "people's penguin" has launched into the history books as winner of New Zealand's 2024 Bird of the Year contest. The hoiho's Māori name means "noise shouter", but ...

The Environmental Law Initiative has received the High Court judgment from its urgent hearing against the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries, which challenged the limited scope of the emergency setnet ...

Sept. 16 (UPI) --A golden-eyed, endangered penguin has once again been named New Zealand's Bird of the Year after a competition involving bird costumes, craft beer and Dr. Jane Goodall. The hoiho or ...

The hoiho, or yellow-eyed penguin, is thought to be one of the world's rarest penguin species. Kimberley Collins via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 A shy and rare penguin has been crowned the ...