A still from the BBC Earth production 'Can Nature Save Itself' focusing on New Zealand. Photo: Screenshot / BBC
A conservation project in Pelorus, at the top of the South Island, has featured in a short film for the BBC's Our Frozen Planet campaign.
The BBC Earth production entitled Can Nature Save Itself? profiles the work of the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance - an iwi/council/DOC collaboration working in the top of the South Island.
The collective aims to restore biodiversity and flight climate change on a large scale and the short film features work done by the Te Hoiere/Pelorus Catchment Restoration Project and Picton Dawn Chorus.
Marlborough mayor Nadine Taylor said healthy ecosystems were a key part of mitigating the effects of climate change and there was still much work to be done in protecting the environment.
Te Hoiere/Pelorus River is the largest river catchment that flows into the Marlborough Sounds and has been identified as an exemplar catchment as a part of the Ministry for the Environment's At Risk Catchments programme and by the Department of Conservation as one of its 14 Ngā Awa rivers across New Zealand.
"The Te Hoiere project is an exemplar project in New Zealand and now it's an example internationally of what can be achieved when we work together for landscape-scale transformation," Taylor said.
"As a member of the Kotahitanga mō te Taiao Alliance, we know that our collective efforts are stronger than any one organisation."