Friday, 2 July 2021, 11:51 am The scientists behind a groundbreaking new book and Netflix documentary credit their time in New Zealand with an “awakening” on the importance of indigenous knowledge in preventing environmental catastrophe. Scientist Owen Gaffney came to New Zealand as part of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, which brings global changemakers to New Zealand to create local and international impact on high-stakes projects like climate change mitigation. At the same time as Gaffney was in New Zealand, 2017 Hillary Foundation Laureate Johan Rockström was in the country, and the two scientists shared the same orientation experience with Wellington iwi Te Ātiawa.