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The article about the new Rob Walton School of Conservation Futures highlights Nia Tero as a model for centering Indigenous leadership in conservation. "Indigenous leadership is the founding structure of Nia Tero. The organization's CEO, senior leaders and board members include Indigenous voices who shape strategy, policy and global partnerships. With that structure, Nia Tero's programs are able to support Indigenous guardianship across regions like the Amazon, the Pacific Islands and North America with deep trust and authenticity."

‘Aulani Wilhelm, Nia Tero's CEO, has been named to the TIME100 Climate list 2025, recognizing the 100 most innovative leaders driving business climate action. Under her leadership, Nia Tero has become one of the world’s largest and most trusted financial and technical partners for Indigenous Peoples. We have awarded more than $100 million in grants since our inception in 2017, supporting 274 Indigenous peoples across more than 130+ million hectares of lands and waters.

Since 2021, Islands Knowledge Institute and Mai Maasina Greenbelt have led the way in shaping Guardian Connector, with funding and visioning support from Nia Tero. Working side by side, Conservation Metrics has provided the technical expertise and design backbone to turn community vision into a working platform.

With a rich program of global cinema, local storytelling, and Indigenous perspectives, HIFF45 offers a cinematic experience that invites audiences to see Hawai‘i and the Pacific not as exotic backdrops, but as dynamic, lived-in homelands full of complexity, history, and resilience. The documentary Remathau: People of the Ocean, produced by Nia Tero, is an intimate portrait of one woman’s journey, and a collective call to uplift Pacific Islander stories too often left in the margins.

For centuries prior to modern conservation efforts, Indigenous communities cared for the oceans with a fundamentally different philosophy – treating marine environments as family rather than a commodity. In this article, 'Aulani Wilhelm, Nia Tero's CEO, talks about this relationship of care with the ocean.

This year's Hawai'i International Film Festival (HIFF) will screen 72 features and 143 short films from 44 countries. The film "Remathau: People of the Ocean," produced by Nia Tero, will make its world premiere at this year's festival.