Māui & Hector's Dolphin Defenders is the world's only charity dedicated to the protection and recovery of the Aotearoa dolphin. It's the world's smallest dolphin, only found here. Māui & Hector's dolphins were once the most abundant dolphins in NZ, now they're among the rarest on the planet. Ours to save.

We're building a nation of Dolphin Defenders.

We raise public awareness, make submissions, deliver events, produce resources, and this year won a court case in the US Court of International Trade calling out the US government for failing to ban imports from the NZ west coast trawl and set net fisheries. All this work is to protect and recover M&HD from human threats, the greatest of which is the fishing industry.