Terra Nature Fund

Terra Nature Fund is a California nonprofit public benefit corporation based in San Francisco and Auckland, New Zealand. The corporation is affiliated with TerraNature, an incorporated charitable trust located in Auckland. As a 501(c)(3) organization, Terra Nature Fund is organised to be eligible for funding from environmental foundations in the United States. This also allows United States taxpayers interested in supporting New Zealand environmental protection to make donations that are tax-deductible.

The combined organisation is dedicated to reduction in the loss of New Zealand's unique biodiversity, protection of endangered species, native habitat restoration, and marine and land conservation.

The organization is working to provide a greater public awareness of environmental issues in New Zealand, and the international importance of the nation's 'edge ecology'. New Zealand's unique biodiversity evolved in isolation for 80 million years. It is a biological treasure chest with living fossils of reptiles and frogs that predate dinosaurs, gigantism in insects, 80 percent endemism in plants, and the world's largest collection of flightless birds.

TerraNature is working to establish deep-sea and coastal marine reserves. Associated with this is the Trust's opposition to mineral mining of the seabed on seamounts along the volcanic region of the Kermadec Ridge. TerraNature also opposes bottom trawling in the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone and the high seas. The Trust works to provide a greater awareness of the impact of anthropogenic ocean noise on marine animals, and the need for legislation to regulate natural resource exploitation of the deep-sea.

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