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Only one yellow-eyed penguin chick expected to survive this season as researchers trial satellite tracking

Conservationists are using live satellite tracking to try to rescue dying yellow-eyed penguin chicks as the species faces collapse.

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Only one yellow-eyed penguin chick from the current breeding season is expected to survive to join the mainland population. Researchers are trialling live satellite tracking technology to identify and rescue dying chicks before the species collapses. The conservation effort aims to prevent the species' decline by intervening before birds are lost.

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Otago Daily Times

Yellow-eyed penguin crisis: How researchers are using live tracking to rescue dying chicks

Only one yellow-eyed penguin chick from the past season is expected to survive to join the mainland breeding population. The Star reporter Sam Henderson speaks to a conservationist trialling live satellite tracking to rescue the dying birds before the species…

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