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Auckland Council is a founding partner of the newly-launched Tamaki Taiao Alliance, a collaboration aimed at accelerating large-scale nature regeneration across Auckland.
Formed with the Sustainable Business Network, the alliance brings together mana whenua, community groups and businesses to deliver coordinated, combined conservation initiatives.
Council general manager environmental services Samantha Hill says it represents a new way of working together for nature.
“By bringing together partners, funding and expertise, the alliance enables us to deliver greater benefits for people and nature in Tamaki Makaurau, accelerating landscape-scale restoration beyond what any single organisation could achieve alone.”
The seven initial initiatives span island projects, ngahere (native forests), repo (wetlands), awa (streams) and urban green spaces, collectively reconnecting around 350,000 hectares of fragmented ecosystems.
Each project is mana whenua led or closely connected to mana whenua.
Sustainable Business Network founder and CEO Rachel Brown says Auckland is facing an ecological crisis that threatens our health, economy and our children’s future and the alliance has been created to meet the scale of the challenge.
The three-year pilot aims to raise $3 million, with $1.5 million already secured if successful the number of projects supported will grow.
