Click photo to enlarge Royal Albatross Centre manager Sam Inder keeps an eye on a juvenile albatross from the centre's Richdale Observatory

ROYAL Albatross Centre manager Sam Inder hopes tourism Dunedin’s launch of the Your Passport to Love the Dunedin Difference project will encourage more Dunedin residents to discover their local treasures.

About 150,000 people a year visit the Otago Peninsula’s Taiaroa Head to experience the unique relationship between wildlife and warfare, which is the Royal Albatross Centre and historic Fort Taiaroa, but less than three per cent of them are actually from Dunedin.