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Why all human rights depend on a healthy environment
Recent revelations about the speed and scale of nature’s decline are hard to truly comprehend. Not since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago has the diversity and abundance of…
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Talley’s guilty of illegal trawls in world’s “most biologically rich ocean habitat”
Talley’s deepwater fishing division, Amaltal, has today been found guilty of illegally bottom trawling in the Hikurangi Marine Reserve off Kaikōura. This comes eight months after the vessel’s skipper was found guilty of the same offence.
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How to protect the oceans in three steps
The oceans near and far are in trouble. In the face of multiple stressors, from destructive fishing to climate change, the oceans are struggling to recover. But together we can protect them.
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Greenpeace calls Ministerial appointments a boon for the oceans
Greenpeace says today’s Ministerial announcements holds some fantastic news for the sea and everything that lives in it.
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Art, indigenous rights and ocean protection
The kaupapa of this drawing for me was to highlight the basics: our corals are dying, our sea bed suffers, and we need to hold companies like Talley’s accountable. Entwined within this message is a reminder from myself and from the people I had wānanga with that we need to look to māori for guidance…
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Why activists around New Zealand are Telling on Talley’s
For the past few weeks, community activists across New Zealand have been spreading the word about a business that’s been trashing the oceans for years.
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What My Octopus Teacher has to teach us
If a few hours in a submarine can teach us this much about an ecosystem, imagine what can be learned by spending a year getting to know one octopus?
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Five ways NZ will be much better if Jacinda makes good on her promise to Build Back Better
Jacinda Ardern pledged, on election night, to build back better. With her landslide election win, there really is no excuse not to. So, what could Aotearoa New Zealand look like in ten years’ time, if the Labour-led Government makes good on this promise?
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Labour could out-green the Greens
With Covid we've taken the approach, go hard or go home. We need to go hard on transformative environmental change too – or there’ll be no home to go to.
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Greenpeace to Jacinda – expect the expected
Greenpeace says the acid test of Jacinda Ardern’s second term will be her Government’s ability to deal with global crises.
