The Department will used a special infra-red probe to monitor the penguins. (Annah Yard)
An infra-red image of Little Penguins inside the burrow. (ABC News: Andy Wallace)
Posted Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:49pm AEST
Updated Tue Aug 26, 2008 3:02pm AEST
Story courtesy of ABC News: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/26/2346759.htm
A project to protect Little Penguins nesting along the Derwent Estuary is having positive results.
Numbers of breeding pairs have increased significantly since the project began four years ago.
Over the years the Derwent Estuary's little penguin population has declined rapidly because of attacks by dogs and cats.
They have also suffered from the development of sea walls along a number of beaches which have stopped them getting to nesting grounds.
But a project to protect the penguins is having success.
Conservationists from the Department of Primary Industries and Water have been installing artificial burrows to provide a safe environment and monitor breeding patterns.
Four years ago there were only 90 breeding pairs.
There are now 190.
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