Ahoj! Thank you, Good morning, and great to be here. I appreciate the opportunity. This is some logo here, a base camp for a better world, an inspiring statement. And I guess we're very much in the space of a better New Zealand. Looking at what we can do to prepare New Zealand's strength and the ecological resilience that we have here for changes that are coming. Just a quick background on next foundation. I'm not sure what, how much you've heard, but I'm just talking about the environmental projects. So the foundations involved in education and environment, my particular area is the environmental programs. So small beginnings for this project. The first thing we did, which was actually a precursor to the next foundation itself, but the same funders was restoration of an island on the Harryka Gulf. Small, privately-owned and converted from what had been alcohol rehab facility for the Salvation Army for 104 years into a new ecological destination in the Harryka Gulf. A pretty exciting project and a chance for us to really have a look and see what could be achieved with philanthropic funding. So next foundation, as you're probably aware, is funded by one couple from Northland. We have a magnificent endowment, but we've been told to spend it in 10 years, $100 million. What we discovered when we first called for proposals was it wasn't going to go very far. The first 287 applications total $1.9 billion and made us realise that we're going to have to get smart about how we spend our money. After the experience in the Rotoroe island, we moved on to Abel Tasman National Park. How many of you have been to the Abel Tasman? Quite a few, it's cool. So hopefully you've seen dying pine trees, dying weeds, birds coming back, and lots of control of predators through there. What you might not have seen is the education programmes that sit behind the connection of young people to the place. A lot of wonderful things happening there to future proof of the project by creating a whole bunch of young champions for the work down there. Many ways this was a game-changing project. I think it's fair to see us, you know, in the back there, I think we really helped to energise the dock partnership approach, and so the relationship with the Department of Conservation is really important to us. We're modelling landscape scale and involvement. So we're not interested in small projects, we're interested in big projects that create models for how we might go further and faster in terms of ecological resilience for New Zealand's landscapes. I think we've established a great deal of credibility with the EWI over time, the project inspired the formation of the next foundation, and it led to a thing called the Tomorrow Accord. And this is reflecting the fact that it's not a good use of philanthropic funds to create endowment funds, to fund a project forever, to keep pests out of the able to asthma. So what we did was agree with the government in a document called the Tomorrow Accord that we would be the strike force. We would pre-agreed the indicators of transformation of these places, and when we achieved those goals, the Crown would take responsibly for funding it for the rest of the time. And that allowed us to think about our next project and to make sure that we were really focused on delivering results that would allow us to step on to the next project. And we started thinking about this whole question of ecological resilience. How do we transform at landscape scale? How do we secure at least 80% of New Zealand's terrestrial biodiversity across altitude and latitudinal ranges? How do we assure that these ecosystems are well placed to deal with climate change effects? And the obvious climate change effects are things like high wind speeds, changes in weather patterns, rainfall, and so on, temperatures. But one of the less obvious ones, perhaps, is that eventually government is going to get serious about dealing with infrastructure changes required to adjust to changing sea levels and so on. There might not be so much money around for this ecological work. So how do we get on with it? And in the next decade or two, make a big difference before some of those other pressures really start to impact. So we're creating the lifeboats across the country in places where these species can adjust. They can go up the mountains of its getting hotter. If we have to, because they're not all connected up, we can shift species around from place to place to situations where it's more suitable for them. So we're working at the moment with the department and we developed this list with them on a suite of properties across the country that represent an altitude and latitudinal range and represent a significant proportion of the ecosystem types across New Zealand that we think could secure that biodiversity in long term. Turtles about 1.3 million hectares, so it's about 16% of the conservation estate. Most of it's on conservation estate, because of the close relationship with the department. But as you'll see shortly, one or two of them are escaping beyond that. So let me just focus on Taranaki. How many of you know Eggman National Park? Quite a few, as is the volcano that sits out on the west coast of the North Island. It's a perfect circle when you fly over it. Somebody had a protractor out, and it's 9.7 kilometres radius. 35,000 hectares. Quite remarkable in the sense that it's got no pigs and no deer on it. So the foliage is actually in pretty good shape except for the impact of some goats and a few possums. But it's really quiet. If you walk on that mountain, there's not a lot of bird life there. So, you know, our first approach was to set up a consortium to work on this. So the ATE of Taranaki, founding partners of this project, as is the department, as is next foundation. And then we bought a bunch of other folk in to help put this project together. This is now fully committed $24 million for the next 10 years. To make a difference in this place, and it's tracking really well. The one I'm working on at the moment is this place. So Araki McKenzie, which includes the Araki National Park, includes the braided systems at the head of Lake Te Kippo and Pukaki. And there's 300,000 hectares of vital drylands country, essentially, on the east coast of the South Island. So we've got scale. We've got huge potential in terms of protection of braided river birds, like the Black Steel, for example, of which we have 123 in the world, and most of them live in this particular zone. And a whole bunch of other endangered species also associated with that location. The cool thing about this project is it's about 60% conservation land, but the rest of it is in either other departments of government, including 16,000 hectares of defense force Afghan training centre. And about 10 high country range holders here, or farmers, in that area. And so we've been working with the Ewe, with those 10 run holders, with Lins, with a defense force, with Canterbury Regional Council, with the department to put together a group, again, a consortium that's interested in achieving the changes that we want to achieve there. And so we continue to think about how do we take this project forward. There are two others in active discussion at the moment, Stuart Island and the Auckland Islands, which we would like to get sorted. And there are a number, as you saw, through the rest of the country that are of interest. So this is the Black Steel that doesn't look so black when it's young, it changes to black. So what do we bring to these conversations? Well, one of the interesting things is we come in with relatively little baggage. And when you're sitting there with Ewe and in department of conservation, sometimes you sort of get all the history, not just of the department of conservation, Ewe relationships, but of the crown, Ewe relationships. And so it's very good to be a neutral player, sort of a fresh voice in that conversation, put that stuff aside, that's not important to what we're talking about today, let's talk about how we take something forward. So in effect in Taranaki, for example, the ATE who are part of that consortium had never really sat around the table together to talk about a project like this. And as it happens, they were about to start on the joint negotiations on what was going to happen to Ewe and National Park, Mount Taranaki. And so it became a test bed for how they worked together. And I think it's helped the start of that process of dealing with that treaty claim. We're focused on transformations, so we're not looking to tinker around the edges. We want to make significant sustainable changes in these places. It's got to be sustainable solutions. We bring professional management, we bring an urgency to deliver that often isn't there on these projects. And we bring a willingness to challenge, and that includes challenging the dock experts, challenging the scientists and New Zealand to think differently about some of these problems and to help us to accelerate the process towards change. And we have a strong sense of responsibility about what we're trying to achieve here. So it's back to this base camp for a better world here for New Zealand to try and significantly change the biodiversity and transform that ecological framework. That might be the end. Thank you. APPLAUSE