See it. Record it. Make it count.
Photograph or film what is happening to the land and water around you. Every observation is timestamped, located and published — so it stops being one person’s word and starts being part of the record.
Free · iOS and Android · No cost to contribute
A photograph on its own gets forgotten. A photograph with a date, a place and a land parcel attached is evidence.
One for Nature is a public record of what is happening to Aotearoa’s freshwater, forests, soil, oceans, estuaries, wetlands, biodiversity and air — built from what people actually see when they are out in it.
Every entry is held in one place, on one map, open to anyone. Over time that turns scattered observations into a pattern that agencies and companies have to answer for, and makes greenwashing much harder to sustain.
Three steps, about a minute.
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01 — Record
Photograph or film what you see
Images, video, or both, with a short description. Add what you know — the lot number, the boundary it sits on, who holds the land.
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02 — Publish
It goes on the live map
Your record joins the public map and the social feed, visible to members and to anyone else who looks. Nothing important sits behind a login.
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03 — Act
The evidence gets used
Records go to the journalists, councils and agencies who can act on them — dated, located, and much harder to wave away than a complaint.
One map, the whole motu.
A single photo shows one moment. Many of them, pinned to real places over months and years, show something a single photo never can — the same catchment, the same season, the same consent, again and again.
The map is public. You do not need an account to look.
Observation Petition Illustrative — not live data
Backed by people who have spent years on this.
“One for nature is a win for the mostly ignored public out in nature. This is the core of citizen science giving individuals the opportunity to get some power back to begin to balance the huge influence big business has in destroying the ecosystems we all depend on.”
“After years of campaigning I’ve realised visual evidence is HUGE for creating public awareness, holding our leaders accountable and getting major improvements. One for Nature is a tool everyone can use to amplify positive change.”
“I can see what’s going wrong and I want to help. I have things to offer and I want to join up with people that want to see our institutions doing a better job and be held accountable. One for Nature is hub to create positive action.”
We are not waiting for permission.
Our team has had wins and losses campaigning for New Zealand’s environment. Along the way we have learned what actually shifts an outcome, and how governance and influence really work.
We operate independently and are not tied to any political party. The mission outlives any one government or minister, and it is open to people from every background and point of view.
Sample record
Start with one photograph.
Free to download, free to use, and free to contribute to. The next time you are out and something is not right, you will have somewhere to put it.
iOS 15.1 and later · Android · Aotearoa New Zealand
Follow what we find
An occasional email on what is showing up on the map and what is being done about it.