Photo: Supplied / NZ Nature Fund
New Zealanders regularly report in surveys how much they enjoy the great outdoors.
But as the Department of Conservation states on its website - nature is in trouble.
It says more than 4000 native species are threatened or at risk of extinction - one of the highest proportions in the world.
One of the organisations partnering with DOC to do something about this decline is the New Zealand Nature Fund.
It has recently appointed a new chair to the Board of Trustees, Neil Mulholland - who previously led the US National Park Foundation and oversaw a huge increase in donors.
He joins Kathryn from Blenheim to discuss increasing support for the Fund's activities and the role of philanthropy in preserving New Zealand's biodiversity.
