ON THE BRINK
New Zealand's mainland yellow-eyed penguins face extinction by 2060 unless urgent conservation action is taken, according to University of Otago researchers who have just published a study in the international journal PeerJ. The yellow-eyed penguin is found mostly in sub-Antarctic Auckland and Campbell Islands and along the south-eastern coastline of New Zealand’s South Island. The species has undergone significant population declines in the past century, with climate change suspected to be playing a major role.