Andrea and Hiltrun adventured to Gisborne last month to meet up with the local residents Bree Skinner and Carrie Taoho, who had reached out to us about the construction of a new seawall at Eastland Port, which was negatively impacting local penguins. Our trip to Gisborne started with a meet and greet where we also met Karen Pewhairangi, who was representing the local iwi Te Whānau-a-Iwi. We listened to the grim stories they were reporting to us about the destruction of kororā habitats by the port, and their initiative to protect this taonga species. A report written by John Cockrem estimates that about 35 to 70 kororā nests were destroyed during the construction. You can read more about this on the Gisborne Herald. Bree and Carrie witnessed a kororā lay an egg on the open ground in the construction area, and numerous displaced kororā that couldn’t return to their nests that had been destroyed right in the middle of the breeding season in 2021. Soon, there were sightings of dead kororā all along Kaiti Beach, which was unprecedented until now. According to the management plan put together by Ecoworks, three kororā deaths were confirmed on Onepoto Beach and all of them were necropsied and confirmed to be dog attacks.