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Global Ocean Treaty ratification update! 🌊 🐙
With 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka's Ratification we are now sitting at 57 out of 60 ratifications needed!!
A new legal framework for protection of the High Seas could happen ANY DAY now!
So. Excited!.
https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/
So excited to finally share with everyone this short documentary on the Greenpeace Seamounts expedition from earlier in the year. 🪸
The team faced some real highs and lows witnessing both the destruction and the wonder of deep seamount ecosystems in the Tasman Sea. 🌊
These precious places need to be protected from destructive bottom trawling. Have a look!
Uncovering the secrets of the deep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7EqH5jGy8w
#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries #greenpeace
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Listen to Veronica Rotman, a marine scientist from New Zealand, that was recently at the Oceans conference (UNOC) and her views on ocean protection, the Global Ocean Treaty, New Zealand's role in bottom trawling and what needs to be done about it all.
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She is 100% on point! 🔥
Excellent listening for ocean lovers in Aotearoa. 💙
The state of New Zealand's oceans https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2019004100/the-state-of-new-zealand-s-oceans
#BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #fisheries #BBNJ #HighSeasTreaty #GlobalOceanTreaty
Some #goodNews (even if they could be better) for Hoiho penguins in Otago. 🐧
And proof that even Shane Jones can't ignore people's demands forever: keep pushing, together we can change things for the better! ✊
-> "He said it had become clear that the Government and industry could not ignore the mounting public concern. “Full marks to the people that drew this to my attention. Ordinary Kiwis have contacted my office and said: let’s see evidence of this much-watered common sense you spout about, Shane Jones,” he told The Post."
Surprise penguin fishing ban from pro-industry minister Shane Jones
https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/politics/360823161/surprise-penguin-fishing-ban-pro-industry-minister-shane-jones
We were in Wellington earlier this week, sending a message to the government and industry about the indiscriminate destruction caused by bottom trawling. 🪸🌊
We also talked to the people of Wellington, about the ocean and the need for protection.
Have a look!
What do Wellingtonians think about bottom trawling?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b51-FiEDiXo
If you are keeping track at home:
The ratifications for the Global Ocean Treaty ( #BBNJ ) have now reached 56 out of 60 needed!
The latest countries to ratify the treaty are Grenada 🇬🇩 and Cambodia 🇰🇭
We are nearly at the start of a new legal framework for protection of the High Seas!
So close! 🌊 🐳
Here's a closer look at the video we projected on the building's wall.
Our press release with all the details is out now. 🪸🌊
“Bottom trawling kills” message projected onto downtown Wellington building as fisheries meeting starts
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/bottom-trawling-kills-message-projected-onto-downtown-wellington-building-as-fisheries-meeting-starts/
#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries #greenpeace
Hello from Wellington! 🌬️
As the international body for managing South Pacific high seas fisheries (SPRFMO) meets in the capital, we are sending a clear message:
Stop Bottom Trawling. 🌊
#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #SPRFMO #greenpeace
Here's a closer look at the video we projected on the building's wall.
Hello from Wellington! 🌬️
As the international body for managing South Pacific high seas fisheries (SPRFMO) meets in the capital, we are sending a clear message:
Stop Bottom Trawling. 🌊
#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #SPRFMO #greenpeace
The #oceans continue to be awesome and full of wonder for those who care to see it. 🌊 🌿
It would be nice for our government/industry to have some appreciation of the amazing things we might learn and benefit from if we treat it with respect, instead of reckless exploitation for the profit of the few. 🐙
Aotearoa's waters teeming with undiscovered seaweed species, scientist says
https://www.carbonnews.co.nz/news/35383/aotearoas-waters-teeming-with-undiscovered-seaweed-species-scientist-says
Global Ocean Treaty Ratification update! 🌊
Last week, Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 and St Kitts and Nevi 🇰🇳 ratified the High Seas treaty, bringing the official number of ratifications to 54/60.
We are just a stone's throw away of a whole new framework for protection of the high seas!
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I think we will get there around a month's time. ✊ 🐙
Global Ocean Treaty Ratification update! 🌊
Last week, Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 and St Kitts and Nevi 🇰🇳 ratified the High Seas treaty, bringing the official number of ratifications to 54/60.
We are just a stone's throw away of a whole new framework for protection of the high seas!
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I think we will get there around a month's time. ✊ 🐙
It's quite funny seeing Talley's adjacent people fund raise out of Greenpeace banners from our previous action. In the end it is just more people seeing our messaging.
Also, I painted those banners. So I guess that now makes me an artist with commercially auctioned art? 🧑🎨
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/antiques-collectables/flags/listing/5500853613
ICYMI!
A bit of #goodNews as the Pākiri community finally gets rid of sand mining operations in its beaches. 🌊
The company is still clinging to the #FastTrackWrongTrack hoping to wreck yet another beach further north at Bream Bay though, but people are resisting! ✊
Decades-long fight over sand mining ends with court appeal withdrawal
https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/08/30/decades-long-fight-over-sand-mining-ends-with-court-appeal-withdrawal/
New Zealand government currently doing less to protect Māui dolphins than... checks notes the United States of America.
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US court gives Māui dolphin charity hope in fight over seafood ban
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/29/us-court-gives-maui-dolphin-charity-hope-in-fight-over-seafood-ban/
Imagine being called out for failing to sufficiently protect endangered species by *the Trump administration*. 😬
It's like if Snoop Dogg told you that he's concerned you have a cannabis issue and might want to do something about it.
Stop Luxon's #warOnNature.
#ProtectTheOcean #NZPol
New Zealand government currently doing less to protect Māui dolphins than... checks notes the United States of America.
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US court gives Māui dolphin charity hope in fight over seafood ban
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/29/us-court-gives-maui-dolphin-charity-hope-in-fight-over-seafood-ban/
There is ample and growing evidence of the harm #bottomTrawling causes in the ocean. Primarily to biodiversity but also to the oceans capacity to regulate climate. It is absolutely indefensible to continue this destructive, reckless practice in the middle of an ecological crisis. 🌊
"Bottom trawling is a fishing practice that is notoriously destructive to seafloor ecosystems. Now there’s growing evidence that it might unleash planet-warming carbon"
A Controversial Fishing Method May Dredge Up a Climate Time Bomb
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bottom-trawling-could-unleash-carbon-dioxide-worsening-global-warming/
Featured in the local Nelson newsletter too.
Unfortunately a Substack link, apologies.
https://open.substack.com/pub/climatemattersnz/p/climate-matters-138
Watch our video! 🌊🌏
Greenpeace activists occupy Talley's bottom trawler
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Eh2SpVN3uFg
Here we can see Talley’s employees being very concerned and cautious about the Health and Safety™ of the activists this morning. /s
Featured in the local Nelson newsletter too.
Unfortunately a Substack link, apologies.
https://open.substack.com/pub/climatemattersnz/p/climate-matters-138
Always remember that any disruption activists cause is (fortunately or not) always going to be temporary.
But the damage caused in the delicate ecosystems deep below the surface of the ocean is permanent, or very nearly so. 🪸
We are proud of, and stand by, the courageous activists putting their bodies on the line to defend the ocean we all depend on. 🌊✊🏽
It's quite funny when Talley’s, or any of the fishing companies, act all concerned about the health and safety of the people involved in peaceful protest, and try to paint Greenpeace's actions as too reckless or risky.
Greenpeace has a 50 year track record of safely taking direct action in Aotearoa, and we're happy to compare it to that of any of the companies involved in industrial fishing, any day.
We can then see who looks after people (never mind the planet) with actual data to back claims up.
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