Wednesday, 12 May 2021, 11:01 am | Napier City Council Aussies may be winging their way here but it’s Kiwis who have kept tourism flying
in Napier through a challenging past year. Where other regions have been grounded,
Napier has taken off with Kiwi holiday makers taking full advantage of everything . More
Friday, 12 October 2018, 9:20 am | Napier City Council
Preliminary voting for the National Aquarium of New Zealand’s inaugural Penguin
of the Year closed at midnight last night with two finalists emerging head and flipper
above their competitors in a fiercely-competitive 12-strong field. More
Friday, 31 August 2018, 12:55 pm | Napier City Council
Napier City Council has welcomed today’s news that the National Aquarium of New
Success for entangled Napier penguin s hunger for the wild
4 May, 2021 11:40 PM
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Rebekah Cuthbert, National Aquarium supervisor birds, releases the latest rehabilitated penguin to the Napier Port kororā sanctuary. Photo / Supplied
Rebekah Cuthbert, National Aquarium supervisor birds, releases the latest rehabilitated penguin to the Napier Port kororā sanctuary. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
The story of the kororā (little penguin) found tangled in a fishing line two weeks ago has had a happy ending.
On Monday he was released to the Napier Port kororā sanctuary by Rebekah Cuthbert, National Aquarium of New Zealand supervisor birds, and Liv Flynn of Hawke s Bay Bird and Wildlife Rescue Charitable Trust.
Friday, 30 April 2021, 10:11 am
Students at Hatea-a-Rangi and Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o
Tokomaru in Tairāwhiti have been the first to take part in
a new roadshow aimed at educating about the risks posed by a
Hikurangi subduction zone earthquake and tsunami.
The
school roadshow developed by East Coast LAB (Life at the
Boundary) and delivered by an educator from the National
Aquarium of New Zealand will visit 10 schools from
Tairāwhiti down to Wellington. The roadshow is funded by
the Earthquake Commission (EQC).
The Hikurangi
subduction zone runs along the boundary where the Pacific
tectonic plate moves beneath (subducts) the Australian
Little blue penguin tangled in fishing line in Westshore, Napier, rescued by walkers
28 Apr, 2021 01:46 AM
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The little blue penguin was rescued after getting entangled in a fishing line last week. Photo / Lin Flynn
The little blue penguin was rescued after getting entangled in a fishing line last week. Photo / Lin Flynn
A little blue penguin rescued after getting entangled in a fishing line will spend the next two weeks in rehabilitation at Napier s aquarium.
The tangled kororā was found by a pair of walkers near Westshore s Whakariri Avenue Reserve about 2pm on April 23.
The woman and her grandfather took the penguin to the Hawke s Bay Bird and Wildlife Rescue centre in Napier South, before it was transported to Taradale Veterinary Hospital and eventually on to the National Aquarium of New Zealand.
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A Purdue University engineering student said he denied the purchase of over-the-counter cold medicine by a CVS employee who refused to accept his Puerto Rican driver’s license and U.S. passport as valid identification and questioned his immigration status. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by birth. José Guzmán Payano, a junior at Purdue, went. HEAD Oct 31, 2019
One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. Others got turned around, even in their own apartments, and cried out for help. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off.