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L-R: Ian Karika, Miriama Arnold, Jess Cramp, Jacqueline Evans, Vaea Melvin, Teanaroa Worthington, Marino Evans-Vakatini. Absent: Ani Talbot, Jacqueline Wi-Kaitaia
The Moana Foundation is a Cook Islands charitable trust which supports environmental activism and social progress. Goldman Environmental Prize winner Jacqueline Evans founded the organization because she observed a gap in funds available to support the capacity needs of local environmental and community groups. She could see that local groups would be able to address urgent local issues with much better efficiency if they had their core organizational capacity needs met.
Donating a portion of her award from the Goldman Environmental Prize to the Trust, Jacqueline helped the Trust establish an endowment fund, proceeds from which are granted to community groups to address pressing environmental concerns and social needs in the Cook Islands.
In her thirty years of working on marine management and conservation in the Cook Islands, Jacqueline also observed a large gap in environmental research activities. For this reason, the Foundation has a research arm. Research activities focus on ocean conservation and aim to provide a better understanding of the nature of the ocean and threats to Marae Moana, the Cook Islands Marine Park.