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Labour misses golden opportunity to stop seabed mining
Greenpeace Aotearoa has slammed the Labour Government’s failure to support Te Pāti Māori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s Seabed Mining Prohibition Amendment Bill.
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The seabed mining fight is not over: a potential ban and back to the EPA
May 2023 is shaping up to be a busy month on the seabed mining front in Aotearoa, with a bill before Parliament, and the beginning of the next round of…
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Fisheries Industry Transformation Plan full of holes
Greenpeace is scathing in its response to the new Fisheries Industry Transformation plan’s recommendations for bottom trawling, saying it amounts to little more than fanciful thinking, offering false hope that future technology will solve the problem.
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Hundreds turn out to oppose Hauraki Gulf bottom trawling
A flotilla of crafts surrounding a massive ‘ban bottom trawling’ banner has gathered just off Mission Bay in Auckland this morning in a show of mass opposition to bottom trawling…
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Deep sea mining and neocolonialism in the Pacific
The recent milestone of the Global Oceans Treaty, which aims to protect marine biodiversity and regulate human activities in the high seas, was a hard-won victory for the international community.…
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Numbers building for event opposing bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf
A public event calling for an end to bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf will be held at 10am this Saturday 22nd, April at Auckland’s Mission Bay
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Deep sea mining industry stalks, while government talks
The world is waking up to the significance of the threat from deep sea mining,. but governments have squandered a major opportunity to take action at the 28th Session of…
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With Nash gone, vital Ocean and Fisheries decisions must not fall between cracks
At a crucial moment for ocean protection, Greenpeace is urging the Government to ensure the Oceans and Fisheries portfolio is left in capable hands, to avoid any further delays in protecting the struggling marine environment.
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Deep Sea Mining: a threat to the Pacific Ocean despite recent Global Oceans Treaty win
The vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean is home to an incredible array of marine life and resources that are vital for our planet. However, a dangerous threat looms beneath…
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Action at sea against deep sea mining
I’m back on board the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise now, but earlier today I leapt from a Greenpeace boat into the sea, and swam in front of a giant deep…
