Nesting boxes provide safe homes for penguins when their usual habitat is in short supply, perhaps due to human development or natural erosion, or perhaps because it is the safest place to nest and avoids them having to cross roads.
This video links in with the West Coast Penguin Trust's "Blue Penguins and Other Seabirds" education resource and the "Blue Penguins' Yearly Activities" and "Explore Alternatives" activities.
The video was made by LEARNZ with support and input from the West Coast Penguin Trust.

This video looks at the use of a burrowscope to monitor penguins deep inside their nest burrows. West Coast Penguin Trust Ranger, Reuben Lane, shows how the burrowscope can bend around corners of a burrow and supply images to him on a small screen, showing any adults and chicks that may be present.
The video is linked to the Trust's "Blue Penguins and other Seabirds" education resource and supports the "Scope it Out" and "Explore Alternatives" activities.
It was made by LEARNZ with support and input from the Trust.

Made with the help of the West Coast Penguin Trust and their Ranger, Reuben Lane, this LEARNZ virtual field trip introduces blue penguins, the smallest penguin in the world. They are found in small colonies on the West Coast of New Zealand, in other parts of the New Zealand Coast and southern Australia.
The video is linked to the West Coast Penguin Trust's education resource "Blue Penguins and Other Seabirds" and is relevant to the "Drawing Blue Penguins", "Blue Penguins' Yearly Activities" and "Explore Alternatives" activities.

This video has been made by LEARNZ, the wonderful virtual field trip people, with help from the West Coast Penguin Trust and their Ranger, Reuben Lane.
Blue penguins would have lived around the coast of New Zealand, including the West Coast, long before humans came along but unfortunately for the penguins, as for many NZ birds, humans brought trouble. From land development to cars, stoats and ferrets to dogs, as well as dangers at sea such as fishing nets and oil spills, there are many threats facing these smallest penguins.
This video is linked to the West Coast Penguin Trust's education resource "Blue Penguins and other Seabirds" and the following activities: "Mapping Your Beach", "Help Korora!", "Web of Life", "Explore Alternatives" and "Waddle You Do?".

In this LEARNZ virtual field trip video, made with the help of the West Coast Penguin Trust and Trust Ranger, Reuben Lane, we learn that dogs are definitely not a penguin's best friend, but there are ways that penguins and dogs can share the beach safely.
This video is linked to the West Coast Penguin Trust's education resource, "Blue Penguins and Other Seabirds" and the following activities: "Help Korora!", "Waddle You Do?" and "Explore Alternatives".