Oceania · Australia and New Zealand
5 projects · 5 organizations
New Zealand's nationwide mission to eradicate rats, stoats, and possums by 2050 so native birds can thrive again.
Sustainable Coastlines mobilises thousands of New Zealanders to clean beaches and turns what they find into the country's only national litter database.
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.
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.
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.