spotted elsewhere but desperately need to share.

#protectTheOcean #oceans

spotted elsewhere but desperately need to share.

#protectTheOcean #oceans

BREAKING 📢

Trans-Tasman Resources has been trespassed from the moana in Taranaki, by representatives of Ngāti Ruanui alongside Greenpeace activists. ✊ 🌊

Read all about it: 📰

Seabed miners trespassed from Taranaki waters, after Fast Track withdrawal
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/seabed-miners-trespassed-from-taranaki-waters-after-fast-track-withdrawal/

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol #Oceans #greenpeace

“Over the past two decades, fewer vessels have trawled the South Pacific’s high seas. Companies from only one country have kept at it, an island nation with a green reputation: Aotearoa New Zealand.”

Time to #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #nzpol #oceans #conservation

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/new-zealand-convicts-company-of-illegal-trawling-in-high-seas-restricted-area/

Seafood NZ, the industry body that represents New Zealand’s commercial fishing interests, put out one of the most mind-bogglingly tone deaf press releases recently in response to the new David Attenborough documentary, ‘Ocean’.

Their response to the documentary, which highlights the dangers posed by bottom trawling and industrial fishing, was to claim that the way that New Zealand performs bottom trawling would somehow make for a great birthday present for Sir David.

The Seafood NZ responses presented in this video are REAL QUOTES from THEIR OWN press release. THE CONTENT LITERALLY WRITES ITSELF!

#oceanfilm #davidattenborough #nzpol #ocean #seafood #nz #satire #greenpeace #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean

when Seafood NZ says it was just a "rare mistake" that bottom trawlers hauled up 6 tonnes of coral earlier this year:

(based only on reported bycatch, there is certainly more that goes unreported)

#BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #fisheries #NewZealand

This video from Seafood Watch and the Monterey Bay Aquarium gives orange roughy a red rating for being unsustainably fished with bottom trawling nets that wipe out entire coral ecosystems.

They are rightly telling conscientious customers to avoid buying it.

"It's a red alert if you ever see orange roughy on the menu" -> how's that for NZ's clean green trademark?

#ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

Te Ao Māori News have put together the best story so far. ✊ 🌊

The video is very well done.
Don't miss it.

Ngāti Ruanui hand-deliver a trespass notice to mining company in Australia
https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/02/25/ngati-ruanui-hand-deliver-a-trespass-notice-to-mining-company-in-australia/

#Greenpeace #StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #oceans

Te Ao Māori News have put together the best story so far. ✊ 🌊

The video is very well done.
Don't miss it.

Ngāti Ruanui hand-deliver a trespass notice to mining company in Australia
https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/02/25/ngati-ruanui-hand-deliver-a-trespass-notice-to-mining-company-in-australia/

#Greenpeace #StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #oceans

🌊 🐙
"We may ruin the ocean before we even understand it.

We’re only just starting to understand the deep sea and, by extension, our planet. Moving forward with something as intrusive and invasive as deep-sea mining in a place about which we still have so much to learn simply makes no sense."

I've explored the ocean's deepest part. Trump wants to destroy it. | Opinion
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/02/19/trump-deep-sea-mining-ocean-conservation/88663439007/

#protectTheOcean #StopSeabedMining #stopDeepSeaMining #oceans

Watch the video of yesterday's trespass notice being served to wannabe seabed miners TTR, at their Sydney office, on behalf of Taranaki Iwi by Rukutai Watene from Ngāti Ruanui and Greenpeace activists. ✊ 🌊

https://media.greenpeace.org/Detail/27MZIFJRAPXJ3

#ProtectTheOcean #StopSeabedMining #oceans #NZPol

Send a message to political leaders in New Zealand, demanding an outright ban to seabed mining, so we don't have to keep fighting off this ridiculous and destructive project for another decade.

https://greenpeace.nz/qldlh3

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol #oceans

The members of TTR/Manuka Resources locked themselves inside an office to avoid the activists serving them a trespass notice.

l o l

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol

BREAKING 📢

Trans-Tasman Resources has been trespassed from the moana in Taranaki, by representatives of Ngāti Ruanui alongside Greenpeace activists. ✊ 🌊

Read all about it: 📰

Seabed miners trespassed from Taranaki waters, after Fast Track withdrawal
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/seabed-miners-trespassed-from-taranaki-waters-after-fast-track-withdrawal/

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol #Oceans #greenpeace

While a majority of New Zealanders across every party overwhelmingly want bottom trawling to be banned and more of the ocean to protected.
:blobcat_whistle: 💅

Fisheries emerges as unlikely election battleground
https://newsroom.co.nz/2026/02/23/fisheries-emerges-as-unlikely-election-battleground/

#NZPol #ProtectTheOcean #BanBottomTrawling #oceans #fisheries

Join me, with a full chest and great joy, saying out loud:

SUCK IT, TRANS-TASMAN RESOURCES!
WE WON! 🌊 🐳

Seabed mining company TTR gives up on the Fast Track process – Greenpeace
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/seabed-mining-company-ttr-gives-up-on-the-fast-track-process-greenpeace/

#ProtectTheOcean #stopSeabedMining #oceans #NZPol #goodNews

For reference, this is the reported catch in just one of the fisheries management areas, currently considered to be collapsed.

See where 1000 ton would figure?
yeah, not good.

#NZpol #fisheries #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean

Jones responding to our polling with some misleading info:
🐟 1000 ton would be less than half of the reported catch in one fisheries area from 2024, the one considered to be collapsing. If that is all that remains then things are truly dire!
🐟 What are these "other nations that are there" that he speaks of? Only New Zealand bottom trawls in the south pacific high seas. Therefore we have the WORST track record using the MOST DESTRUCTIVE method available.
Sick of the implied and reflexive "racism as a defense" NZFirst is so fond of.

Minister defends bottom trawling, despite poll showing majority of NZers want it banned
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/587141/minister-defends-bottom-trawling-despite-poll-showing-majority-of-nzers-want-it-banned

#NZPol #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #fisheries

Giving nature a legal voice is cool and badass.
Ask the river Whanganui and the mount Taranaki.
See?

A law for the tohorā: New Zealand bill seeks personhood for whales
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/new-zealand-bill-seeks-personhood-for-whales/

#goodNews #oceans #protectTheOcean #whales #solarpunk