Three of New Zealand’s most ecologically-rich islands have joined an ambitious, globe-spanning project to restore and rewild 40 globally significant island-ocean ecosystems by 2030 through a series of initiatives to remove invasive species and safeguard their native wildlife.
With the addition of these three projects – spanning New Zealand’s Maukahuka (Auckland) Island, Rakiura (Stewart) Island, and the Chatham Islands – the total number of committed island-ocean ecosystems falling within the mission has been brought to twenty.
The ambitious project is being spearheaded by the international conservation initiative, Island-Ocean Connection Challenge (IOCC), led by Island Conservation, Re:wild, and UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
