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Protect our Migrating Whales

Help create safe Blue Corridors for them

Take Action

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three green turtles
© Troy Mayne

Help our sea turtles

Sea turtles have roamed the world’s oceans for more than 100 million years, but it’s taken humans just 200 years to push them to the brink of extinction.

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two dolphins
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Demand more cameras on boats

Help protect marine life and hold the fishing industry to account. Demand cameras on ALL commercial fishing vessels.

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Healthy Kelp Forest
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Our Moana, Our Future

Despite our ocean territory being 15 times larger than our landmass, New Zealand currently has less that one percent of its ocean areas protected. Help get 30% of our ocean protected by 2030.

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Image of deep sea coral
© Erling Svensen / WWF

Help stop destructive bottom trawling

Join the fight to ban bottom trawling over seamounts in Aotearoa and the South Pacific.  Help save our deep sea corals. 

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Who we are

WWF-New Zealand is part of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) International Network, the world’s largest independent conservation organisation.

We have been working in Aotearoa New Zealand since 1975, on a mission to stop the degradation of the planet's natural environment and to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature.  

Find out more about who we are and where we came from.

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Government’s biodiversity plan is ‘light on detail and heavy on vague intentions’

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Climate march
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NZ on a pathway to ‘international pariah’ as it quits global climate alliance

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Government’s support of voluntary nature credits a 'welcome step’

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Protected corals destroyed in 6-tonne bycatch 'disaster' from single bottom trawl

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Whio/blue duck in remote area of the West Coast of the South Island.
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Predator-free groups make way for native birds to thrive again in remote areas

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‘No BS’ or ‘No Biodiversity Spend’? Budget fails nature and climate yet again

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Tone-deaf Oceans Minister delivers another blow to recovery of Hauraki Gulf

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The Awhi Awa project.
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Healing Aotearoa’s Waterways, One Stream at a Time

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Wildlife Act ‘improvements’ shonky law-making and selfish short-termism

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Environmental scorecard a ‘code red’ for nature