🐧Dora: Reigning Queen🐧 Penguin of the Year 2022 winner Dora does not want to let go of her crown! She knows the system and she has been working it all year. Swimming up near the glass in Penguin Cove and posing for selfies, winning our visitors hearts and minds, and more importantly their votes. Yes, yes Dora keep it down, we heard you, and so did everyone that came to a penguin talk this year as Dora stood centre stage and took over. 👉Head to https://bit.ly/PenguinofYear23 to place your vote

It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our beloved Dora the Kororā. Dora came into our care in 2014 and has been a cherished part of our penguin whānau ever since. As a penguin rescue and rehabilitation centre, National Aquarium of New Zealand cares for many kororā, some only temporarily as they recover and are then released into the sea, others more permanently. Dora was a princess among penguins: charismatic, curious and a little bit cheeky. Dora was hand-reared by staff at the Nationa