00:00Kia ora Hamish, I'm Anna Campbell, I'm the General Manager at Te Te Aki Hoihoa Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust.
00:06And we're here today to talk about the Yellow-Eyed Penguin Symposium,
00:10an annual symposium that's being held at Te Hura Museum on Saturday.
00:14Cool. This one's a little bit different from previous years, can you talk us through that?
00:18Yeah, so this year stakeholders are gathering at Te Hura Otago Museum together to address the continuing plight of the Hoiho.
00:26We're going to be holding it in a workshop format. We're going to be addressing gaps in resourcing,
00:32we're going to be addressing advocacy, what we can be doing with technology, research,
00:38how all of the stakeholders can best tackle the season ahead with compounding factors at sea.
00:46What numbers are we talking about? Who's attending?
00:48So we're going to have a wide range of attendees. We've put a call out to the entire community.
00:54We will have people who have been to 30 of these symposiums, and we will have people where this is their first one.
00:59So we're going to have a range of attendees from government, NGOs, people who are actively engaged in Hoihoa management,
01:09from the rehab, the opera team, the wildlife hospital team, the Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust team will all be there as well.
01:16A couple dozen people all up?
01:18Yeah, we've got, I think, attendees nearing about 80 at this stage, and we always have some extra advocates turn up.
01:26So it's usually held the first weekend of August, and it's been running for a number of years now.
01:33So we're expecting a really engaged audience.
01:36Cool, you've talked about gaps in resources and using new technology. Can you tease some of that?
01:41What are some of the new technology that we've got to help protect these birds?
01:45Yeah, well, that's what we're going to find out on Saturday.
01:47So we've got some experts who are going to be presenting some new ideas.
01:52We're going to be looking into what's happening around the world.
01:55We're going to be looking at what's happening with other seabird recovery programs.
01:58And we're going to be trying to draw from all of that knowledge and how we can apply it and apply the science to the hoi hole space.
02:06We also are waiting on the threat assessment from fisheries.
02:11The threat assessment from fisheries will be coming out in a couple of weeks,
02:14and that will really highlight where we need to draw our attention to and where we can address mortalities
02:21and how we can actually make a difference to bring this population into a sustainable state.
02:26I know you're saying that we're going to learn soon how hoi ho are doing, but generally how are hoi ho?
02:32Well, we know that things aren't looking great at the moment for the northern population.
02:37And we know that we're looking into the numbers in the subantarctic islands as well.
02:42But there's certainly still hope. And we know that if we address what's going on at sea,
02:46that we can actually turn things, you know, we could possibly be turning things around.
02:50And we know that hoi ho are a taonga and we have a duty of care to protect them.
02:56And we really want to look into things like foraging, feeding and fletching.
03:01We need to assess what's happening. We need to address where we don't know what's happening.
03:06And we need to activate and mobilise all actors in order to make a difference.
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