NEXT Foundation is one of the investors in the Te Manahuna Aoraki conservation project - which will eliminate pests and predators from the Upper McKenzie Basin and Aoraki Mount Cook National Park. The project covers an area three times the size of Auckland and will help protect the biodiversity of some of New Zealand’s most stunning landscape and threatened birds. 

Project Chair Jan Wright discusses the new environmental initiative and who is involved, in this interview on Radio New Zealand.

NEXT is excited to announce a new environmental investment - we are founding partners in a collaboration restoring the biodiversity in the Upper McKenzie basin and Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park, announced today. 

Te Manahuna Aoraki brings together Government, iwi, philanthropy and private land owners to the 310,000 hectare project - home to some of New Zealand’s most stunning landscape and threatened wildlife. 

NEXT CEO Bill Kermode said it is a further extension in the portfolio of large landscape scale biodiversity projects NEXT invests in - with collaboration with private landowners and new partners being critical parts of that. 

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NEXT environmental initiative Project Janszoon - which is restoring the biodiversity in the Abel Tasman National Park- came in for special attention this week when A list royals Prince Harry and his new wife Meghan visited the Park. 

The NZ Herald filed this report.