Oceania · Australia and New Zealand
8 projects · 8 organizations
New Zealand's nationwide mission to eradicate rats, stoats, and possums by 2050 so native birds can thrive again.
Since 1992 this is the only organisation dedicated to researching New Zealand's critically endangered Māui and Hector's dolphins to guide their protection from fishing nets.
Te Waihora was Ngāi Tahu's great food basket before drainage and dairy runoff turned it into one of New Zealand's most polluted lakes; iwi and regional council now run its recovery together.
A plan to suck 50 million tonnes of seabed a year off the Taranaki coast met a volunteer coalition of surfers, fishers and iwi — who took it to the Supreme Court and won.
Since 1982, whānau-run Kōhanga Reo language nests have immersed tens of thousands of Māori children in te reo Māori from birth, reviving a language once on the brink of loss.
Hutton's shearwaters nest in burrows high in the Kaikoura mountains, only two natural colonies survive, so a trust moved chicks down to a predator-proof fence at sea level.
After a 140-year campaign by Whanganui Maori, New Zealand's third-longest river became the first river on Earth recognized in law as a living being with its own rights.
Sustainable Coastlines mobilises thousands of New Zealanders to clean beaches and turns what they find into the country's only national litter database.