The permanent closure is part of a wider package designed to reduce fisheries-related threats to one of the country's rarest ...

The ban included setting an accidental capture limit of four northern hoiho per year.

Long-term measures to reduce risk from fishing to hoiho will come into force on 16 September 2026, Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones ...

The Hoiho yellow-eyed penguin is set to face protection from fishers around the Otago Peninsula. From September 16th, emergency set-net restrictions to protect the birds around the Otago peninsula ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thought to be one of the world's rarest penguin species, the hoiho is native to New Zealand A shy yellow-eyed penguin has come out on top of one of New Zealand's most contested competitions to win ...

Despite its screaming and its reclusive habits, the rare species triumphs in prestigious vote An antisocial penguin that communicates by screaming has won New Zealand’s hotly contested bird of the ...