Our heartfelt congratulations to the State of Palestine on ratifying the Global Ocean Treaty.
In the face of genocide, famine and suffering, this decision to stand for our shared planet and ocean is a powerful act of courage and solidarity.
Ika Makimaki
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PRESS RELEASE:
Jones moves to green light ocean destruction through reforms
Just announced, Minister Shane Jones wants to push through controversial fisheries reforms that will give the fishing industry carte blanche on ocean destruction, weaken transparency and block the public from having input into fisheries decisions.
We need more ocean protection, not less. #ProtectTheOceans
PRESS RELEASE:
Jones moves to green light ocean destruction through reforms
Just announced, Minister Shane Jones wants to push through controversial fisheries reforms that will give the fishing industry carte blanche on ocean destruction, weaken transparency and block the public from having input into fisheries decisions.
We need more ocean protection, not less. #ProtectTheOceans
Ika Makimaki
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Deep sea mining is another form of colonisation and extraction, driven by greed, powered by distant governments and corporations.
#StopDeepSeaMining#ProtectTheOceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/forty-years-of-resistance-in-the-pacific/
Deep sea mining is another form of colonisation and extraction, driven by greed, powered by distant governments and corporations.
#StopDeepSeaMining#ProtectTheOceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/forty-years-of-resistance-in-the-pacific/
Ika Makimaki
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Wind turbines off the coast of Taranaki could act as artificial reefs and have a positive impact on biodiversity. The opposite of Trans-Tasman Resources' destructive seabed mining plans.
#BanSeabedMining#ProtectTheOceans
Wind turbines off the coast of Taranaki could act as artificial reefs and have a positive impact on biodiversity. The opposite of Trans-Tasman Resources' destructive seabed mining plans.
#BanSeabedMining#ProtectTheOceans
Ika Makimaki
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PRESS RELEASE
Greenpeace says governments are continuing to fall short in protecting the deep sea after the conclusion of the 30th session of the International Seabed Authority. Greenpeace is calling for greater efforts to put a legal barrier between mining machines and the deep ocean.
#StopDeepSeaMining#ProtectTheOceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/governments-must-rise-to-the-moment-and-vote-in-favour-of-a-moratorium-on-deep-sea-mining/
PRESS RELEASE
Greenpeace says governments are continuing to fall short in protecting the deep sea after the conclusion of the 30th session of the International Seabed Authority. Greenpeace is calling for greater efforts to put a legal barrier between mining machines and the deep ocean.
#StopDeepSeaMining#ProtectTheOceans
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/governments-must-rise-to-the-moment-and-vote-in-favour-of-a-moratorium-on-deep-sea-mining/
Ika Makimaki
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New Zealand is not backing ocean protection. Embarrassing. And the world is noticing.
We're the only country still carrying out destructive bottom trawling the High Seas of the South Pacific.
New Zealand is not backing ocean protection. Embarrassing. And the world is noticing.
We're the only country still carrying out destructive bottom trawling the High Seas of the South Pacific.
Ika Makimaki
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Whanganui District Council is named a relevant authority in Trans-Tasman Resources' fast-track application process for its seabed mining project.
#BanSeabedMining#ProtectTheOceans
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/elation-as-whanganui-gets-voice-in-fast-track-seabed-mining-decision/DI2EQQQRUBCTTLVQU5ZKJ6MCY4/
Whanganui District Council is named a relevant authority in Trans-Tasman Resources' fast-track application process for its seabed mining project.
#BanSeabedMining#ProtectTheOceans
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/whanganui-chronicle/news/elation-as-whanganui-gets-voice-in-fast-track-seabed-mining-decision/DI2EQQQRUBCTTLVQU5ZKJ6MCY4/
Ika Makimaki
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Seabed mining is incompatible with the development of an offshore wind industry.
#BanSeabedMining#ProtectTheOceans
Seabed mining is incompatible with the development of an offshore wind industry.
#BanSeabedMining#ProtectTheOceans