A Nature-Positive Future
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A Nature-Positive Future

Together we can stop nature's decline. 

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Across the world, there has been 69% drop in monitored wildlife populations since 1970. 

In one lifetime, we have lost nature at an alarming rate. And we continue to do so. The situation is grave. But if we act now. If we act together. We can turn it around.

Together we can keep our most severely threatened species, like the Māui dolphin and the Antipodean albatross, from disappearing. We can stop the decline of our endangered and vulnerable penguins, mollymawks, and dolphins. We can reverse the damage to the oceans. 

Are you in? Will you help build a nature-positive future?

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Marine Protected Areas

One major action we can take is to turn at least 30% of New Zealand waters in Marine Protected Areas. 

Despite having one of the largest marine environments in the world, less than 1% is protected from exploitation. There are too few places where our seabirds and dolphins are safe from the dangers of commercial fishing. Too few places where nature can have a chance to recover. 

Your donation will help us keep pressure on the government to commit to doing more to protect our ocean, and the wonderful, unique species that call it home. To make 30% protected by 2030 a reality.

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Sustainable fishing

We can reduce our impact on the ocean, and the species who live in and rely on it, by fishing more sustainably.

Your support will allow us to keep working with government and industry to strengthen, monitor and enforce bycatch mitigation measures. By making a donation today, you can help reduce the number of seabirds, mammals and other species needlessly dying on fishing lines and in nets. 

We need to do better. For the ocean. For our orcas, our yellow-eyed penguins, our albatrosses and petrels.

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What we mean by nature positive

Nature Positive

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Press Release

Short-sighted and irresponsible approach to nature in Budget undermines economic wellbeing

WWF-New Zealand's response to Budget 2026.
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Te Kohuroa Rewilding volunteers restoring a rocky reef habitat.
Press Release

Sir David Attenborough would hate this 100th birthday gift: Conservation reforms an ‘attack on nature’

Drastic new conservation reforms fundamentally rewrite the purpose of conservation in Aotearoa and shift public conservation land from being protected for nature to being opened up for commercial exploitation, says WWF-New Zealand.
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Tīeke / Saddleback.
Press Release

Biodiversity plan ‘greenwashing’ over failure to plug funding gap

The Government’s new biodiversity plan leaves a massive nature funding gap unaddressed and amounts to little more than greenwashing, warns WWF-New Zealand.
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Submission

Submission on the disestablishment of the Ministry for the Environment

WWF-New Zealand's submission on the Environment (Disestablishment of Ministry for the Environment) Amendment Bill.
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Press Release

Environment groups join forces to call for ‘environmental reset’

A shared roadmap to building a nature-positive Aotearoa.
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Resources

Building a nature-positive Aotearoa for a prosperous, resilient future

A shared roadmap to building a nature positive Aotearoa.
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Submission

Submission on the Planning and Natural Environment Bills

WWF-New Zealand's submission on the Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill.
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Submission

Submission on the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill

WWF-New Zealand's submission on the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill.
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Submission

Feedback on proposals for a National Conservation Policy Statement

Read our feedback on proposals for a National Conservation Policy Statement.
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Submission

Submission on proposed changes to Primary Sector - National Direction

Read our submission on proposed changes to the primary sector National Direction.
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Press Release

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

The government’s plan to tackle Aotearoa New Zealand’s biodiversity crisis lacks ambition and fails to match the scale and urgency of the challenge, says WWF-New Zealand.
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Submission

Submission on implementing New Zealand’s Biodiversity Strategy 2025-2030

Our submission on the Government's plan to tackle Aotearoa's biodiversity crisis.
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