Elm Wildlife Tours Otago Peninsula Dunedin - New Zealand

Judged New Zealand's best leisure activity  

"see tourism and penguin conservation work together."

Join us to experience absolutely unrivalled close-up viewing of rare yellow eyed penguins, Hooker's sea lions, and NZ fur seals within our restricted wildlife conservation sanctuary, see albatross at Tairoa headland and other wildlife around Otago peninsula bay's and lagoons.

Our tours are the highlight of many visitors trip to New Zealand. Accompany our enthusiastic and expert guides to some of the most spectacular wildlife spots, inaccessible to others, to ensure an absolutely special wildlife experience of a lifetime. We are a multi-award winning family owned and operated business with over twenty years experience in wildlife conservation and tours. We are based in Dunedin city on the South Island of New Zealand, and pride ourselves on our conservation and the superb quality of our sustainable nature and wildlife experiences. Click for google map of Dunedin city , the wildlife capital of New Zealand, and see the Otago peninsula extending into the ocean, close to the food supply that supports the huge range of unique animals that this area is famous for.

We provide many tour choices

'Peninsula encounters' is our well known and popular daily 'wildlife packed' tour to the Otago peninsula with five seasonal options.

'Wild Coast Explorer' offers exclusive private options of one-day or multi-day wildlife experiences of the Otago peninsula or the southern coast. For passengers arriving in Dunedin by cruise ship we provide a full day experience to fall within the ships port time - See our cruise ship passenger option.

We have received many awards including winning the prestigeous New Zealand Tourism Awards six times, and have been benchmarked by the Green Globe system, to the highest environmental standard of operation based on agenda 21 of the Rio earth conference. We operate in a sustainable environment friendly manner which was acknowledged when we received the environmental award at New Zealands tourism awards 2005. We have also attained qualmark green (Gold level). We have benefited from a positive carbon footprint since 1997 as our companies self planted forest absorbs much more carbon than our tour operation creates . We are particularly active in conservation, especially to benefit yellow-eyed penguins. This is our principle endeavour with a long term project to increase yellow-eyed penguins available breeding area through replanting native habitat within our wildlife sanctuary. We are fortunate to work with local landowners who see the future benefit of doing so, and congratulate them on their efforts, particularly the predator control and additional planting of native species which has been carried out.

You will also require somewhere to stay in our beautiful city, for a range of hotel choices, check out wotif.co.nz for your Dunedin accommodation or check out our Dunedin accomodation links.