News

Browse our latest press releases, advocacy updates and success stories.

wind farm makara
Press Release

WWF Calls For The Government To Accelerate Action To Phase-out Fossil Fuels, Slash Emissions, And Restore Nature

Statement from Dr Kayla Kingdon-Bebb, WWF-New Zealand CEO
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trawler heading out
Advocacy Update

The future of seafood

Imagine this: You are in the supermarket, looking for sustainably caught fish.
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pilot whales
Press Release

Landmark High Seas Treaty agreed

WWF strongly welcomes the agreement of the text for a new global legally binding High Seas Treaty, creating a framework to conserve marine life and restrain harmful activities in two-thirds of the ocean.
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Climate march
Advocacy Update

Nature-positive investment is the only way we can ‘build back better’

As the country deals with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, we must collectively rise to the challenge of protecting our communities from future climate disasters.
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Scott Bike
General News

Sebastian Kienle is supporting WWF-New Zealand

WWF-New Zealand are pleased to have teamed up with former Ironman World Champion Sebastian Kienle to help instil a love of nature in the next generation.
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Sea lion
Success Story

SeaSpotter app could revolutionise marine conservation

The public can help scientists in their efforts to learn more about New Zealand’s marine mammals with the new SeaSpotter app.
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Using the drone
Success Story

Māui Dolphin Drone Project

Using advanced technology to protect Endangered dolphins
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diver in kelp forest
Advocacy Update

Global deal to reverse nature loss by 2030 agreed

WWF welcomes the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Agreement, committing the world to halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030.
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yellow crowned kakariki
Success Story

Kākāriki at Pūkaha

Boosting the population of yellow-crowned kākāriki at Pūkaha, Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre. 
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Climate march
Advocacy Update

The world cannot afford to have another COP like this one

WWF reaction to the conclusion of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27, held in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from 6 to 18 November 2022.
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Building traps
Success Story

2022 Conservation Grants

18 community conservation and environmental education projects receive WWF-New Zealand funding
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Boy and older man planting native trees
Success Story

Project #ReBlossomNZ

Planting with Panama Road School students at Mt Wellington's Auckland Rowing club training grounds on the banks of the Tamaki Estuary (September, 2022).
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Gorilla
Press Release

Living Planet Report 2022

A 69% drop in wildlife populations, on average, in less than 50 years revealed in WWF’s Living Planet Report 2022.
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Fishing trawler
Advocacy Update

Fishing and human rights

WWF is working towards a world where people and nature live in harmony. And that means not just looking after nature, but people too. Because a lot of things that are bad for the planet are bad for people and vice versa.
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Planting project
Success Story

People and nature thriving on the Hokianga Harbour

The Conservation and Education Fund is about enabling community groups to come up with their own solutions to creating harmony between people and nature. In the Hokianga, the Ngāi Tūpoto ki Motukaraka Trust are doing just that.
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Boulder butterfly
Success Story

Bringing back the Boulder Butterfly

The Boulder Copper butterfly used to live across Canterbury, but due to habitat loss, its numbers have declined. It is now found only sparingly in a few locations and was missing from Christchurch. That is until a group of children decided to bring it back.
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