Hoiho numbers on the increase
THE 1992 CENSUS of the world’s rarest penguin has reported a rise in numbers for the second year in a row. The yellow-eyed penguin or hoiho, found only in small colonies from Banks Peninsula south to the subantarctic, now numbers about 380 pairs on the mainland. But Otago Museum zoologist John Darby cautions
against reading too much into the results. The mainland figure is still well below what it was five years ago and he estimates that intensive conservation efforts such as fencing and revegetating breeding areas, establishing reserves and controlling predators, will need to continue for another five to ten years before numbers show a significant increase.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 267, 1 February 1993, Page 4
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113Hoiho numbers on the increase Forest and Bird, Issue 267, 1 February 1993, Page 4
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