New Zealand: The World's First Sustainable Nation? 

Thank you for taking beautiful photos of our country, your photos reminds me of how lucky we are to be part of this country, Barry NZ Pensioner

Awesome video 📷 you guys just nailed it. Thanks for bringing this up.

ابارك لكم الحظات الممتعة التي قضيتموها في هذه الطبيعة النقية

Gorgeous shots of a beautiful country, flora, fauna, and people.

The photographer is so graceful with his words and descriptions 😄hope to visit one day!

How lucky we are to have such beauty and wonders.

Kia Ora from South Island, New Zealand. I really need to go see Fiordland myself.

Thankyou .that was a good video . Especially as you chose artistic shots that reflected who you were ...I kept wanting to share some of my favourite places with you ....many of us travel around aotearoa at some time...and I was lucky to bring my child up in the bush ..it is indelible in me and you reminded me to look again ...kia ora

I have been to North Island of new Zealand. It's magnificent

Nicely produced video

Simply brilliant awesum captures.... ❤ truly hope this vdo is watched by many and your last sentence comes true 🙌👍

I'm happy to be living and born in a country that is generally a peaceful, clean and naturally beautiful place and environment. We do definitely have our problems of course the skyrocket housing market, our river waterways need a bit of looking after to name some. But we could be a whole lot worse my family originally came from Philippines and there most people can't really have ready access to clean, safe environments to enjoy or live in cause it is not taken care of enough by the government especially. Not to mention most places like a decent clean beach are not free for everyone to enjoy. Where you have to go resorts to experience clean, nice beaches for example most of the time.

So so true. We can only ever be guardian of a land that doesn't waver beyond perfect. Who am I without the land that sustains me? I alone am nothing but compost.

Visually stunning...

Looks like scotland in parts.

Are u related to Art Wolf who did simular documentaries on PBS? I have dear friend in New Zealand & I learned so much in these 23 minutes I never knew b4! Thanks for the beauty info & laughs w the Alpine parrot!

Thanks again Art ! Best Cheers P (NZ)

I love New Zealand

a beautiful documentary. No we are not 100% green and clean and sustainable, but with limited population and resources, we do try and in the current social and political atmosphere in the world, I'm grateful to be living in stunningly beautiful and reasonably peaceful and safe Aotearoa. Kia ora.

30.1.2022.Very good.

The tiny Polynesian atolls of Tokelau are 100% solar powered and have been for years

That’s crazyyyy no phones no nothing Str8 vibes

You can almost hear the mountains forest. An ocean breathing heavily

They looked like Ganets but I have never seen many Albatros. Who can tell me? Looked like Ganet colony on cape kidnappers lol even the tiny isle at the tip 🤔

Quote “” Their always uP 2 Something !! Reminds me of my Sister Georgina ever busy .

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Auckland cbd is very safe particularly on weekend nights, provided you wear a cricket helmet for whole time and shops are very safe provided ram raiders are not on the roads. Thanks to lenient laws of Government.

Tihei Mauri Ora! 💚

all or most nations are sustainable, right now. it just requires adaptation. what we have now is only sustained by lots of effort, millions of people running around all day to help keep the shape of things as they are. if people stopped it would not be sustained. we work against nature and push custard up a hill. leave the custard. there are other pudding type ingredients

What a lie for title. 😡

Excuse me but we are not East of Australia! Australia is West of us!

Yamma. 🖐🏾 🖤💛❤️🦘💙💚🤍🖤 🥰

By sustainable I suppose you mean energy and agriculture sustainable? That is a lofty goal but the downside of that is it takes a lot of carbon energy to create green sustainability. That footprint negates all the energy saved in the future by the green revolution. Solar only works if you live in a very sunny place. If that is New Zealand, fine. Wind only works in windy places, if that is New Zealand, fine. But just know that it must be paid for ahead unlike carbon which is not. Not every place in the world can do this so if New Zealand can, more power to you. It is just not for everyone like Germany for instance. In addition, if you plan on going electric for your cars, trucks, tractors, ETC., the natural resources to make those items are mainly sourced in Russia, Ukraine, and China, all of which are going away. Do you plan to be sustainable in agriculture? What are you going to do for fertilizer? Unless your farmland is extremely rich in nutrients, you will need fertilizer. The main source of fertilizer is Russia, Ukraine, and China. Do you make your own? Do you produce Potash? Natural gas? Nitrogen? Better rethink the green revolution. I think you mean environmental sustainability? Nature is way ahead of you there. But to keep the country pristine as nature intended is the challenge. Do you use gas-powered vehicles? Do you generate electricity with gas or oil? Do you use biodegradable plastics? Do you have herds of cows that generate methane and release it into the atmosphere? It will be a challenge to keep things the way they are now. Good luck.

Pristine! Since when

Costa Rica obviously🙄!

who was the first maori to land on the moon?

Um. where's the sustainable part?? I could suggest that charging around in a helicopter is not helping with it at all..

VERY LAUGHABLE HOW THE MEDIA EXPRESS LIES AS THE TRUTH.......New Zealand under the indigenous people was paradise. The natives had more time for socialization than doing anything else since food, water, energy and medicine was available for free in nature,.That is real sustainability. Forget about the current system created by the occupiers in which the real custodians of the land and resources (the natives) have been reduced to beggars on welfare

Guardians of the land who hunted the Moa to extinction in 100 to 150 years...just sayin'

Sustainable... meanwhile they ship in plastics, metals, food, computers, medicine, cars, planes, oil, batteries, etc.

A tourist from Scotland having coffee with his wallet sitting on the table an kea flew down an flew away with his wallet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 he canceled everything very quickly naughty kea hope kea got arrested 🤣🤣

Lol... have another Tui's... 🙄

Shame there killing there own civilians though

ghostrunnindeaththrowshadows 🥏🥏🥏🥏🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈

They are mixed with white . Most of them

I think Slovenia was voted the world's first sustainable nation... who writes your content, Jacinda? ;)

Yeah I use to think that New Zealand lived up to its 'clean & green' image too, unfortunately having grown up here now I can tell you it's false, more a marketing slogan than anything else. I suggest you do more statistical research 'TRACKS'. Outside of our large hydro-power production, our grid is very dirty and per-capita emissions are huge. We have the worst recycling stats in the OECD, and the highest car-dependence (& resulting housing unaffordability) in the world. And even a supposed 'left-of-center' govt. has done little to nothing to change any of these conditions. We have a lot of work to do to ever earn the 'clean & green' that we never were (post-colonisation).

Hasn't been sustainable since the Maori migrated there a little over a 1000 years ago... when the moa began going extinct... Pure fantasy piece.

I enjoy these documentaries but I'm unsubscribing as long as your affiliated channels continue to run these fraudulent fundraisers. Props to the original crew who put all these documentaries together, which are then licensed by Tracks and Real Stories. I just purchased the whole series from Art Wolfe.

Being small weak it is vulnerable to be captured by world hooligans like China Russia. Many such countries must unitedly form strong military to protect it.

are maori people normal or just acting weird..

Maori account for only 16% of the population, and less than 30% of them speak Maori, yet their 2023 wokeness wants a 50% share of NZs economy and a separate rule. Reminds me of South African aparteid

Sustainable?😂😂😂 we are all struggling in New Zealand. Stop spreading propaganda!!!

40,000,000+ domesticated grazing animals roaming around ensuring no young trees ever get a chance to to grow. Very sustainable.

Unfortunately rubbish, waste, plastics all came following colonisation, and has increased in volume with every passing year, and true to their nature the colonisers have done nothing to maintain, decrease, or even eliminate the waste that has slowly but surely polluted our rivers, beaches, lands, and foods. Though New Zealand is advertised as clean and green, reality is we’re probably one of the least polluted countries, but polluted none the less… Though I’m thankful for New Zealand as my home, Born and raised…more needs to be done to keep the environment clean, and make New Zealand actually’Clean and Green’..