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4 March 2026
Flinch Secure Air New Zealand Sponsorship for Island Restoration
Flinch secured a NZ$50,000 sponsorship deal with Air New Zealand to support the inaugural PRISMSS Restoring Island Resilience Awards for NGOs working on the management of invasive species across the Pacific.
The new awards programme is part of Flinch’s ongoing support for the Pacific Regional Invasive Species Management Support Service (PRISMSS) and six nominated NGO’s will each receive NZ$5,000 to support their efforts to manage invasive species. The grand winner will be announced on 18 March 2026 at a special event at the Holiday Inn in Suva, receiving an additional NZ$15,000 to scale up this work.
The PRISMSS Restoring Island Resilience Awards are helping to highlight how these local organisations are working to manage invasive species, restore island ecosystems and improve community livelihoods.
The six nominated NGOs include: NatureFiji-MareqetiViti (Fiji), Niue Ocean Wide Trust (Niue), Samoa Conservation Society / Sosaiete Faasao o Samoa (Samoa), Société d’Ornithologie de Polynésie (SOP Manu – French Polynesia), Te Ipukarea Society (Cook Islands), and Vava’u Environmental Protection Association (Tonga).
Flinch helped to coordinate media coverage of the new awards by TVNZs One News.
25 January 2026
Flinch Helps to Manage Impacts of Climate Change on Pacific Tuna
Flinch recently helped to coordinate this media coverage about increasing efforts by the Pacific Community (SPC) to manage the impacts of climate change on critical tuna stocks. The team at Flinch Marketing provides SPC with communications support for the NZ-funded $25m “Climate Science for Ensuring Pacific Tuna Access” (CSEPTA) project and the new GCF-funded US156m Pacific Regional Tuna Programme. These critical investments are providing Pacific Island countries with the scientific capability needed to continue the sustainable management of the world’s largest tuna fisheries.
14 November 2025
Global Premiere of the Documentary: “Restoring the Rock – Managing Invasive Species in Niue”
At #COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Flinch supported the global premiere of this inspiring 30-minute documentary “Restoring the Rock – Managing Invasive Species in Niue”.
The screening opened with a special address by Hon. Mona Ainu’u, Niue’s Minister of Natural Resources and followed by an informal Q&A session with Robert Krech, Governance and Operations Lead for the Adaptation Fund, Todd Croad, UN Climate Change Chief Negotiator, New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Haden Talagi, Director of the Niue Environment Department. The documentary was also screened at a special community event in Niue before being launched on regional TV via Pasifka TV