All articles by Ellie Hooper
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Giant plea for Global Ocean Sanctuary support from New Zealanders
A giant video billboard is being lugged around downtown Wellington this week to alert politicians’ eyes and ears to the plight of our oceans.
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A mural appears in Auckland amid renewed calls for ban on trawling seamounts
An orange roughy and bubblegum coral are the subject of a new mural just completed in central Auckland, as the New Zealand government faces renewed pressure to ban bottom trawling…
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Horizon poll reveals nearly 80% of NZers want bottom trawling banned on seamounts
Greenpeace Aotearoa is renewing its call for the New Zealand Government to ban bottom trawling on seamounts
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New report and map shows Aotearoa’s deep-sea corals vastly unprotected from trawling
A new report and interactive map released by Greenpeace today, details the extent of unique wildlife found on Aotearoa’s seamounts, and how unprotected they are from bottom trawling.
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Report on the Biodiversity of Seamounts in Aotearoa and the Pacific
A new report and interactive map released by Greenpeace details the extent of unique biodiversity found on Aotearoa’s seamounts, and how these habitats are at risk from the commercial bottom…
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Report indicates NZ trawlers dragged up over seven tonnes of protected coral
Greenpeace is calling for seamounts and similar ocean features to be protected from trawling, as the latest fishing bycatch data indicates the New Zealand fleet dragged up seven tonnes of…
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Talley’s shifts blame for illegal bottom trawl onto skipper
Court papers have revealed that Talley’s deepwater fishing division, Amaltal, has shifted the blame for illegally bottom trawling in the Hikurangi Marine Reserve off Kaikōura, a year after the company…
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Greenpeace calls for full Māui habitat protection as survey reveals further decline
A leaked Government report has revealed Māui dolphin numbers have declined further over the past five years, prompting Greenpeace to renew their call to protect the dolphins’ full habitat range.
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Greenpeace activists deliver message to Talley’s bottom trawling ship
Thursday, August 12, Port Dunedin: Greenpeace activists have this evening underlined the call for bottom trawling to be banned on seamounts, confronting Talley’s ship the Amaltal Explorer as it headed…
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Environmental, fishing groups renew call to ban bottom trawling on seamounts
Wednesday, August 4, Wellington: A coalition of environmental and fishing groups will this morning renew their call for bottom trawling to be banned on seamounts, as they present to the…