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New Zealand’s support for deep sea mining moratorium a win for ocean protection
The environmental movement is celebrating the New Zealand Government’s decision to back a conditional global moratorium on deep sea mining as a win for the ocean and people power, saying…
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A win for people power as more problem plastics banned
Greenpeace Aotearoa is celebrating “a win for people and the environment” after the Government announced that a range of single-use plastics are now banned from sale or manufacture, but the…
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5 inspiring reuse and refill projects from the Global South
Remember when life wasn’t wrapped in single-use plastic? Reuse isn’t new. The majority of the world’s countries have a very long tradition of having reuse and refill systems in place.…
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Greenpeace calls on Prime Minister Ardern to help get Global Ocean Treaty over the line
Negotiations for a Global Ocean Treaty are on the brink of failure as UN member states near the end of a two week meeting to hammer out the details of…
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Why do we need a Global Ocean Treaty?
We have less than two weeks to go, and it feels like anything can happen – especially if enough people speak up. Five million of us have already called for a strong Global Ocean Treaty
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Why I sat on a raft for 10 hours to protest Talley’s continued bottom trawling on seamounts
Jessica Desmond talks about why she took direct action, blocking a Talley’s bottom trawler from leaving Port Nelson, to protest bottom trawling on seamounts.
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Sealord’s paper-thin seamounts ‘white paper’ trying to fool New Zealanders
Environmental groups are roundly rejecting a proposal re-released by Aotearoa bottom trawling company Sealord today, saying the so-called “white paper” proposal is yet another attempt by the company to continue trashing seamounts
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Nourishing Papatūānuku
Rob Small is the curator and designer of Pourewa, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei’s productive organic garden in Auckland, which provides kai to local whānau and tells a mātauranga Māori story of its people and their place in the world.
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Local elections are a chance to vote for the environment | GUEST POST
It’s hard to know what’s ‘normal’ weather anymore, and hard to imagine what it will be like for whānau a hundred years from now.
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Eight hours in: Greenpeace activists continue blocking Talley’s bottom trawler
Greenpeace activists on raft have now been blocking a Talley’s bottom trawling ship from leaving Port Nelson for eight hours, and are preparing to stay there overnight in opposition to…
