Your Blue Economy Partner

Supporting client journeys towards a healthier ocean and healthy communities through a sustainable, thriving blue economy.

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STATUS UPDATE

Big changes at Terra Moana Ltd are underway

Having had a terrific ten years, Partner and Co-Founder Katherine Short has decided to seek new opportunities.  Tony Craig will continue taking the business forward delivering  reasoned, pragmatic and workable business innovation and fisheries management solutions. Katherine intends to dive wholeheartedly into marine and coastal systems change and the policy, research and advocacy required alongside the empowerment of all who seek to better care for the ocean.

Tony says; “It has been an interesting, sometimes challenging, yet rewarding 10 years.  I am not sure many could have come together from such very different perspectives as we did to result in a much stronger blended approach to widening others perspectives and influencing change in marine management.  Katherine’s care for the environment is unwavering and her commitment is second to none.  We have  been involved in some wonderful projects over the years including Moana NZ’s  Sustainability Journey, The Moana Project, the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge and the revamp of the National Aquarium (sadly still in limbo).  Some say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks that’s not true as I have learnt much from Katherine and I wish her well."

Katherine says; “I am tremendously grateful for having had this profound partnership working alongside Tony. It’s taught me so much personally and professionally. The decade supporting Moana New Zealand on their kaitiakitanga hikoi has been a meaningful chunk of my career and an important contribution in caring for the realm of Hinemoana and Tangaroa. Alongside that we have also delivered some great projects bringing together the best of our combined expertise and approaches to life. It is never easy making big leap decisions. I made one when I leapt from WWF to establish Terra Moana with Tony, and I’m making another now seeking to take my skills, experience and relationships into a new, as yet undetermined role.”



Terra Moana and The Blue Economy

All economy activity at sea is within the umbrella of the term blue economy. It applies to shipping, offshore energy, seafood (wild harvest and aquaculture), recreation and tourism, and many other activities.


Our Terra Moana business focus is on enabling regenerative economic activity in the marine environment i.e. business that gives back to the marine environment it depends upon.

We approach all our marine sector industry client work in an evidence-based manner understanding that:


  • good business decisions require good information built on accurate and timely data.
  • in today’s rapidly changing physical environment such information is needed to de-risk investments and operations that occur in the marine environment.
  • Good regulatory, policy and management settings are evidence-based.

Our Approach

BRIDGING

We create connections that count, facilitating meaningful dialogue and activities across businesses, sectors, cultures, government and diverse groups.


WEAVING

We bring together the best of contemporary and traditional values, science and thought leadership to deliver tailored strategic solutions.


DESIGNING

We apply agile, manageable, and measurable step-change, constantly working with you on your journey to sustainable success.

REVIEW & ANALYSIS

We conduct comprehensive reviews and analysis using best-practice qualitative and quantitative methodologies. We also develop new frameworks for emerging needs, such as a world-first tool for assessing social issues in the fisheries supply chain.

MEASURE & REPORT

We track client performance to identify trends, using qualitative and quantitative tools to deliver tailored reporting and measurement support. After all you can’t manage what you can’t measure.

STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP & ADVICE

We advise business, NGOs, industry leaders and government to identify opportunities and support strategy implementation to ensure they are at the frontier of social, cultural and ecosystem management.

STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT

We are deeply experienced in facilitating stakeholder engagement, creating meaningful dialogue and activities across diverse groups using our wide networks across businesses, governments, user groups and NGOs.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

We provide customised project management. We’re certified in PMG (NZ Treasury) Better Business Case, Prince 2 Project Management, Microsoft Project software and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Programme.

COACHING & MENTORING

We provide specialised coaching services helping clients identify, sustain and regenerate the human and natural ecosystems that are financially and reputationally important to them. We can provide mentoring services to support individual staff to better deliver their sustainability projects.

Our People

Terra Moana brings the right team to every project. Our services are tailored to meet each client’s specific needs, providing best-practice evidence, assessment and valuation methodologies to every project to underpin and enable sound decision-making.

Technical Partners

    • Innovation & Leadership

    We’re always looking for new and better ways to advance sustainability outcomes – it’s just what we do. Often the systems that we develop working with clients have wider applications, or we’ll see an opportunity to meet a bigger need. Here are several initiatives that we have developed, partner with, and invest in.

    Responsible
    Fisheries Training

    Having done multiple fishing fleets reviews and analyses, Terra Moana identified the need to support New Zealand (NZ) fishing sector's aging fishers and address the difficulties they have operating in a tough environment that is constantly in the spotlight. Being responsible and transparent is not normally acknowledged, often reflected in the difficulty in continuing to operate and to be seen as a career of choice.


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