Category: News Articles

  • Te Ipukarea Society turns 30!

    Hope from hardship: the Cook Islands’ first environmental NGO, Taporoporo’anga Ipukarea Society—later known as Te Ipukarea Society (TIS).

  • TIS represented at landmark Pacific Ocean convening in Suva

    Te Ipukarea Society (TIS) was proud to be asked to attend the inaugural State of the Pacific Ocean Convening held in Suva, Fiji, from 8–11 June 2026. We were joined…

  • Reducing plastic waste, one period at a time

    Three hundred plus young women at Tereora College recently took part in an interactive menstrual health awareness session.

  • Feral cats threaten Rarotonga’s rare seabirds

    Seabirds spend much of their lives soaring across vast ocean areas. They also serve as important indicators of ocean health.

  • More Flights, More Pressure

    The rapid growth in visitor arrivals, once considered a hallmark of success, is now viewed as an outdated measure within regenerative tourism models.

  • American Ocean Minerals–Odyssey merger signals push toward seabed mining exploitation phase

    The proposed merger matters for the people of the Cook Islands because it advances a commercial seabed minerals plan on accelerated timelines while our country is still in the exploration…

  • Aitutaki’s lagoon classroom in action

    GROW Aitutaki’s Te Taunga o te Moana “Learning by Doing” biodiversity awareness programme for Year 7 and 8 students from Araura College in Aitutaki.

  • Acknowledging Deep Day on the 7th May: Protecting the ocean depths for the future of the Cook Islands

    The Cook Islands is an ocean nation. Our culture, identity, food, and economy are deeply connected to the sea… life beneath the ocean’s surface, the deep sea, is just as…

  • Living legacy of biodiversity and tradition

    Takuvaʻine Valley is a place rich in biodiversity and a powerful example of cultural knowledge and the environment working together to create sustainable land use. Te Ipukarea Society staff member…

  • Listening to the unseen seabirds of the night

    These largely unknown species typically nest along cliff edges or on the forest floor, hidden beneath ferns or within burrows under old trees.