Did you know there are 18 penguin species in the world? Sadly, 10 out of the 18 existing penguin species are considered endangered. Help the penguin now.
Penguins do more for us than just put a smile on our faces when we see them waddling. They have a very important role in the ecosystem in the ocean as well as on land. For example, they carry nutrients between the land and sea, and the population of penguins is also an indicator of the health of the oceans.
Your adoption or donation can help
- Cleaning up oil spills or any other pollution which affects penguins (but also other sea birds).
- Providing food and medical care for injured penguins.
- Helps with the funding of research studies involving penguins.
- Protects penguin colonies and their nesting environments.
- Supporting captive penguins that cannot go back to the wild.
- Raises awareness.
And there are many more reasons. Every donation or adoption supports the penguins and their preservation.
HELP A PENGUIN NOW!
There are many WAYS HOW HELP THEM.
Remember that an “adoption” is only symbolic, and you do not get to take a penguin with you. Nevertheless, the support will help.
The adoptions or donations can be done in many ways via many organizations, which give you either a personalized certification, membership in the organization, or an information package about the penguins. Many even offer plush penguin toys, gift bags, etc.
Where to Adopt or Donate
-Australia & New Zealand-
Penguin Foundation offers donations as well as adoptions. Adopting a penguin on Phillip Island means becoming its official guardian. You can choose from a single, monthly, or yearly donation. All donations and adoptions help to protect the island’s native wildlife.
West Coast Penguin Trust strives to conserve penguins and other seabirds on the West Coast, ensuring that they and the coastal environment are protected for their intrinsic values. It is a charitable trust formed in 2006 by local residents concerned at the decline in blue penguin populations, firstly in the Charleston area and then quickly to the whole region.
Donate and help the Blue penguin population!
Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust is a long-established non-governmental organization with a specific focus on the conservation of hoiho across its range. They ensure the survival of the yellow-eyes-d penguins by managing their habitat and addressing impacts in the marine and terrestrial environments. There are many ways in which you can help the penguins. You can become an Annual Supporter, make a donation, support the Donate-a-Tree program, join the Penguin Coffee Club, give a tree, trap, or donation certificate or leave a bequest.
Donate now and help the Yellow-eyed penguins!
Penguin Rescue provides sanctuary for penguins, and the vision is to remove yellow-eyed penguins from the endangered species list. with their work, they optimize penguin habitats and maximize penguin breeding and survival. You can help them as well by donating to their noble penguin cause.
Donate now and help the endangered penguins!
Potahu Penguins is a family-run business with a long-standing history of protecting the Korora (Little Penguin). The colony’s survival is accredited to Shireen and Francis Helps, who have cared for the penguins for 30+ years. When the Helps first began their conservation work, the penguins faced massive challenges that threatened their very existence, but the Helps have stabilized the Pohatu Colony – and it continues to grow!
Donate and help the penguin now!
The Penguin Place rehabilitation facility has been operating since the early 90s. It is a private conservation reserve dedicated to helping the endangered Yellow-Eyed Penguin survive. It is also the world’s first entirely tourism-funded conservation program. The funding they receive provides habitat restoration, predator control, a research program, and on-site rehabilitation care for sick, starving, or wounded penguins.
Donate now and help the penguins!
Blue Penguins Pukekura focuses on the protection, conservation, and enhancement of the area known as Takiharuru Pilots Beach for the benefit of its flora and fauna, and in particular, the kororā blue penguin colony. The habitat of the kororā blue penguin colony exists in reserve in a way that maximizes nesting opportunities and minimizes predator infiltration and inappropriate visitor interaction.
They have not yet established the “adopt a penguin” scheme, but you can always help by sending more visitors.
Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony provides visitors with an opportunity to see little penguins in their natural environment. The Colony is a tourism operation with a strong research and conservation focus. Every visit contributes to the long-term research program where they care and learn about the penguins’ lives. You can also help online by donating r adopting a penguin.
Donate now and support their penguin work!
NZ Penguin Initiative is focusing on research and project that can help see the importance of penguins in New Zealand. They are a environmental conservation organization working towards evidence-based conservation of penguins in New Zealand.
Check out their Facebook page and follow.
Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife is the charity partner of Australia’s National Parks. They are a a non-government organisation on a mission to safeguard wilderness & wildlife for future generations. One of their feature projects is Protecting NSW’s Last Little Penguins. FNPW has supported efforts to monitor the penguins, including burrow checks and micro-chipping. This allows us to compare how the colony is going each year, and respond appropriately.
Donate now to help the Little penguins!
Quail Island Ecological Restoration Trust has since 2007 dedicated volunteers who have worked to restore the native ecology of Otamahua or Quail Island. The Trust has eradicated most pests (except for mice) from the island and planted thousands of trees as part of an eco-restoration project in partnership with the Department of Conservation and Ngati Wheke of Rapaki. Their Penguin Project focuses on creating nesting boxes for the penguins.
Donate now and help to build a nesting box!
-South Africa-
SANCCOB provides different adoption levels where you have the possibility to name your adoptive penguins and received a certificate of adoption. They help rehabilitate and take care of injured penguins and with your adoption, you help with the medical costs of the penguin. After the penguin was healed they release them back into the wild.
Dyer Island Conservation Trust focuses on research that helps to identify the origin, the cause, and possible solutions to a problem of the surrounding wildlife. With your donations or adoption you can help other animals, but also help re-build the African penguin population or help with the expenses at the African Penguin and Seabird Sanctuary.
Donate and help a penguin now!
Seabird and Penguin Rehab Centre are driven by a single goal – to help prenguins and other seabirds. They help all seabirds and penguins that are brought into the centre, rehabilitate them and then release them. They take great care off all the birds and make sure thez are released back onto the wild.
Donate and help a penguin now!
Stony Point Nature Reserve is home to one of the largest successful breeding colonies of African penguins in the world. Stony Point offers the public the chance to see these wonderful flightless birds up close, via the boardwalk through the colony, which allows the public to observe the penguins go about their daily activities in their natural habitat, without disturbing or disrupting them.
Help them by visiting the reserve.
Bird Life South Africa is a non-profit, public benefit environmental organization and the country partner of BirdLife International. Their mission is to conserve birds, their habitats, and biodiversity through scientifically-based programmes, through supporting the sustainable and equitable use of natural resources and by encouraging people to enjoy and value nature.
Donate to their African Penguin Fund now!
-South America-
Falklands Conservation is the largest membership conservation charity in the Falkland Islands. They take action for wildlife in the Falkland Islands and with your adoption or donation you support the King penguins. You can choose from a one-time adoption to becoming a member and have a regular renewal set up.
Galapagos Conservation Trust focuses on all Galapagos animals including the penguins. You can sponsor a penguin through postal or digital packages available with different price ranges. The Islands have reached a critical point, with the increasing human footprint leaving the future of these wonderfully diverse Islands in jeopardy. The Galapagos penguin is the world’s only penguin species to live north of the Equator.
Adopt a Galapagos penguin now!
Center for Ecosystem Sentinels mission is to listen and take action what the wildlife of our planet is telling us. Wildlife and wild places enrich human life. They are housed at the University of Washington and use the information from the study of sentinel species to educate scientists, the public and policy makers.
Donate now and support the penguin research!
-Antarctica-
Oceanites is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. that operates internationally with the central mission of assisting science-based conservation recommendations in Antarctica and increasing the awareness of climate change worldwide. They count penguins in Antarctica to help save the planet from the devastating impacts of global climate change.
Donate now and help the penguin research!
UK Antarctic Heritage preserve historic buildings and artefacts in Antarctica to help current and future generations discover, understand, value and protect this precious wilderness. For more than a century Port Lockroy has been home to explorers, whalers, scientists, and sailors who have made vital contributions to Antarctic history. It is Britain’s first permanent Antarctic base. Help to protect and share the wonder of Antarctica and its heritage.
Adopt or donate now and help the penguin research. Or you can also adopt!
Penguin Watch aims to understand the lives and behavior of penguins in remote regions. They have spent the last 10 years putting out cameras, around Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, to monitor their annual breeding and reproductive success. And you help with the counting as well.
Donate now and help the research!
The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition works on five continents to stop the Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing that is dramaticopens in a new tab)aally depleting toothfish stocks – the most important commercial fish in the Southern Ocean. They try to protect vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems.
Donate and help them out now!
-Other Organizations-
The Global Penguin Society is an internationally recognized leader organization dedicated to the conservation of the world´s penguin species, the coasts and the oceans they inhabit. Their mission is to foster the conservation of all penguin species and their associated ecosystems, generating science, management guidelines and education. You can support their work by a one time or regular monthly donation.
Donate now and help to preserve the penguins!
Penguins International is dedicated to penguin conservation and research to help understand the issues that penguins face and how we can join together to protect the future of these amazing creatures. They work hard with their various penguin conservation and research projects to advance this mission.
BirdLife International is a global partnership of conservation organisations (NGOs) that strives to conserve birds, their habitats and global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use of natural resources. You can support their work by becoming a member or donating to them. Find out about their penguin work here.
Donate now !
Oceana is the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation. They do not solely focus on penguins, but you can support also other animals. The symbolic adoption helps support the campaigns against climate change to protect critical habitats, like those of the Emperor penguins. Various levels of adoptions are possible.
Adopt a penguin or other animals now!
World Wildlife Fund supports all animals around the world, and among them are also penguins. In their portfolio are currently more penguins to support. Adoption gives a huge boost to support projects, and you can adopt Macaroni Penguin Chick, Emperor Penguin, Gentoo Penguin or Emperor Penguin Chick. And apart from adoptions, you can donate as well.
For UK adoption, click here – link.
ZSL (Zoological Society of London) is an international conservation charity that aims to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wild animals from going extinct. It aims to further engage the public in the mission to promote and achieve the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats.
Adopt a penguin here.
Folly Farm is a UK-based farm/zoo. By adopting one of their animals, you’re helping raise money for their conservation partners. Whether it’s for yourself, or a gift for a loved one, you just need to choose whether you want bronze, silver, or gold adoption and pop it into your basket.
Adopt a penguin here.
With every dollar or euro (or whatever your currency is), you are helping the penguins to survive.
THANK YOU!