Ocean conservation with a kiwi accent. Tweeting my own mind.
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Jono Ridler, what an absolute legend. “I want my generation to be the generation that says, not “do you remember how good it used to be?” but “do you remember how bad it used to be?”” 🩵🌊🐟⛰️🪸 1news.co.nz/2026/04/04/still…
Local government in Aotearoa is stepping up on behalf of the kiwi people to protect our ocean from bottom trawling, meanwhile the government and trawl industry are hell-bent on keeping this last-century fishing method afloat. greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pres…
Bottom trawling fish that can live for two centuries, off from seamounts where they go to breed, and "oops" also dragging up corals that can be thousands of years old (sometimes tonnes at a time)... New Zealand sustainable fisheries my arse. dialogue.earth/en/ocean/insi…
Against advice from his own officials, NZ Minister of Oceans & Fisheries (actually, screw the ocean, just fisheries) tries to put his dodgy decisions above the law & divorce catch limits from environmental damage. Deranged & ego-maniacal spring to mind. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/27/of…
The latest fisheries f***uppery from our Minister, firmly in the pocket of the bottom trawl industry. Highlights include the ability to put fisheries mgmt on auto-pilot ...suffice to say, that's not gone well for near-collapse Chatham Rise orange roughy. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/06/fi…
This from Environmental Law Initiative, whose repeated legal victories against unlawful and risky fisheries decision-making by successive Ministers have got @shanejonesmp so riled that he's shaken his whole bag of playground insults out on national radio eli.org.nz/updates/response-…
@GreenpeaceNZ “These reforms will mean more destruction, more decline in fish populations, and will allow the industry to go back to operating in the dark – hiding the impact they have.” - Ellie Hooper. greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pres…
@WWF-New Zealand @KaylaKingdon responds: "Yet again the bombastic Jones is pandering to his mates in industry at the expense of the public interest. These amendments will further undermine the industry’s social license, which is already pretty tenuous." wwf.org.nz/news/oceans/fishe…
Other pearlers include changing the law to stop enviro groups from legally challenging the Minister over unlawful fishery decisions (ie, attempting to put oneself above the law). If nothing else, this shows the impact the Environmental Law Initiative's excellent work is having.
Excellent podcast from @TheDetailNZ ~ sadly the title says it all about NZ govt's attitude to ocean health: Protecting our fishers from conservation efforts. Instead, we need to #DefendTheDeep @AlexiaRussell3 @AndrewBevin9 @KaylaKingdon @BiancaRanson @DeepSeaConserve
Taranaki community protests NZ Govt attempt to 'fast track' seabed mining that's already been rejected by highest court in the land. “This community is bigger than a party, we are not here for a three-year term, we are here forever.” @KASM_NZ @Maori_Party stuff.co.nz/nz-news/35043081…
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Overfishing baked into New Zealand fisheries management: Three options from Fisheries NZ allow orange roughy to keep declining to as low as 10%, one option would halt decline (just) none of the options see any increase over 5 yrs. #StopTrawlingSeamounts newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/20/no…
NZ government rolls out the red carpet to fast-track seabed mining, so companies that have been refused permission by the Supreme Court come back with bigger and worse plans. newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/03/se…
Seabed mining our iron sands - rejected all the way the supreme court, but then regurgitated onto the table by this rag-tag coalition government of extractivists and their fast track plot. theguardian.com/world/articl…
Deep Sea Mining, dark oxygen and "some cosmic twist of irony" as reported in mining.com.au of all places. mining.com.au/opinion-deep-s…
#SaveWaikoropupuSprings Gold mining above the clearest spring water in the Southern hemisphere, over a complex aquifer, must never happen. #FastTrack back to Australia, Siren Mining. newsroom.co.nz/2024/07/28/ta…
