Early in the 1990’s the local penguin colony
suffered heavily through repetitive dog attacks due to a lack of awareness
about the damage roaming pets can have on native animals. This inspired the two
to seek out a business model of “use business to protect nature’ Through Nic’s
work as a teacher and Paul’s experience in landscaping they both understood that
together they could use education and land management to restore the local
penguin population from a low of 40 up to currently 600 penguins.Throughout our years of operation, we have been able to
monitor the penguins 24/7 and react as necessary to threats to the penguin
population. This protection model has allowed us to partner with local farmers
acquiring an area of land that was previously paddock space and convert it back
to penguin habitat allowing for penguin population to continue to expand
allowing for multiple generations to stay in the area.
