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Meet Te Whānau o Te Moananui o Toi Te Huatahi: the trust fighting to safeguard their tupuna moana
Te Whānau o Te Moananui o Toi Te Huatahi is a new trust formed of Kelly Klink and Pita Rikys. The trust's mission is to right some historic wrongs. Here Kelly Klink explains their vision for the future of ocean protection in Aotearoa, and what they're up against to achieve it.
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How climate change made the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers 10 times more likely
Glaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change.
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How does overfishing make climate change worse?
For the oceans, one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss is industrial-scale fishing. Fish stocks and ocean ecosystems are in decline in many parts of the world because of overfishing and destructive techniques.
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Reasons to be cheerful (in the long term)
Despite all the other flibberty gibbet behaviours that come at this stage of the electoral cycle, the latest polls give some hope that there’s a developing appetite for long term thinking.
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The North Sea’s choice: Revolution or Destruction?
Since its beginning in the 1960s, the North Sea oil industry has earned billions of Euros profit and helped fill the coffers of a number of European governments. At the…
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Slowing the circular economy
COVID has underlined the deep mutual connection and reliance we have with the natural world. It is also showing that our current socio-economic systems — driven by hectic lifestyles, mindless…
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Sharks are thriving at the Kermadec Islands, but not the rest of New Zealand, amid global decline
Sharks are thriving at the Kermadec Islands, but not the rest of NZ, shows new report.
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Put plastic blame where it belongs
Greenpeace is delighted to see the Government starting to put the burden of some of plastic pollution back where it belongs - with the companies that make and sell plastic.
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Cabo Pulmo, an ocean sanctuary success story for people and wildlife
Cabo Pulmo is a coral reef in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It’s home to a huge variety of life including lots of different fishes, crustaceans, molluscs, birds.
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World Conservation Day: 6 conservation success stories from around the world
History shows that if we move fast and act with courage, humanity can protect and restore our most important places, and bring amazing creatures back from the edge of extinction.
