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Kiwibank biodiversity credit purchase, Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari

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Not ranked
Offtake, therefore not eligible for carbon financing league table
Announced
7 Oct 2026
Instrument
Offtake
Amount
Undisclosed

Parties

Country
New Zealand
Buyers

Carbon

Pathway
Unresolved
Project type as recorded
Biodiversity credits

What happened

Kiwibank purchased biodiversity credits generated through Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, a registered charity protecting 3,363 hectares of native forest behind a 47 kilometre predator proof fence in Waikato. The credits are issued under the BioCredita programme, designed and operated by environmental markets specialist Ekos, which sells them. Closing wording: "purchasing credits generated through Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari". Neither volume nor value is published.

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