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. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Dodgy a.f. political persecution of a Ukrainian scientist to prevent his involvement in Antarctic conservation efforts, and an accidental admission by Russia of its Antarctic mining interests. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I hope we don't have to wait too long for the scrapping of and apology for this travesty. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/21/f...

FBI sets up shop in Aotearoa and gifts illegal 3D-printed guns to top cops. Could you get any more tone-deaf? Why are we inviting this militaristic gun-crazed attitude into our country in the first place? We know where it leads, and it aint pretty. apnews.com/article/kash...

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/ins...

Against the advice of his own officials, NZ's Minister of Oceans and Fisheries (actually, screw the ocean, just fisheries) tries to put his dodgy decisions above the law, and divorce catch limits from environmental impacts. Deranged and ego-maniacal spring to mind. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/27/o...

What Dame Anne said. Just who is the New Zealand government working for? Not the people of this country, it seems. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/23/a...

@newsroom.co.nz on the latest fisheries f***uppery from our Minister, firmly in the pocket of the trawl industry. Highlights include the ability to put fisheries mgmt on autopilot. Suffice to say, that's not gone well for near-collapse Chatham Rise orange roughy. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/06/f...

Great news from Te Tapuwae o Rongokako marine reserve in Tai Rāwhiti. The first "generational review" has just been done on the reserve, and it's a winner 💙 congrats to Ngati Konohi, DoC, EMR and all involved in this protection and allowing the ocean to flourish again. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

🪸 heartbreaking 6 tonne bycatch 🪸 If you were shocked by bottom trawling in Sir David Attenborough’s film Ocean, you’ll be appalled by the devastation from bottom trawling in New Zealand. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr...

More of this please! Chef Alex Davies of Gatherings Restaurant in Ōtautahi Christchurch ditches bottom trawled fish in favour of more sustainable options 💙 #OceanFilm #BanBottomTrawling www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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Seafood NZ wishes a "happy birthday" to Sir David Attenborough by telling him about how wonderful all our bottom trawling is. WTAF are these people thinking? #BottomTrawling #TheWorstBirthdayPresentEver @greenpeace.org.nz responds: www.instagram.com/reel/DJqdtyETtWs

NZ government wants glyphosate residue limits 100 times HIGHER. Wrong direction, idiots. Businesses have submitted against the change, for obvious reasons. Even Federated Farmers, usually pretty aligned to a right wing government, doesn't support the increase. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/19/h...

WWF calls out Seafood New Zealand on their "birthday message to Sir David Attenborough." SNZ represents industrial trawlers of the only country still bottom trawling seamounts in the South Pacific high seas. You know what they *could* do for his birthday, right? www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

Andrea Vance is on fire writing about the absolute travesty of a government that throws working women and their families under the bus by cancelling pay equity legislation to pay for tax cuts to landlords and property investors. www.thepress.co.nz/a/politics/3...

David Attenborough's film OCEAN is a must-watch. As well as breathtaking beauty from the tropics to the poles, brace yourself for horrendous footage of bottom trawling. This last-century fishing method is still widely used in Aotearoa NZ waters, responsible for 99% of coral bycatch.

There are many things going wrong in the US right now, this is one of them. news.mongabay.com/2025/04/unde...

So this govt is happy with a mining company that costs more tax $ in acid mine remediation annually than the entire coal sector yields in royalties. I myself care as much about blind frogs, but how is this a good idea in anyone's book? Excellent work, those protesters. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/20/p...

Don't buy these crap products, made from a toxic mix of colonisation and rainforest destruction. #KitKat #Pantene #Oreos #Nestlé #Procter&Gamble www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

What the actual F***, NZ Government. Trading away renewable energy for one Minister's fast-track seabed mining invite to a company that's already had its permits rejected by our Supreme Court. We need leadership, not a sandpit fight over junior parties' pet projects. newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/14/s...

Nature is our greatest asset, not ‘green tape’ - wise words from Kayla Kingdon-Bebb of WWF New Zealand.

🐟 Vote the Orange Roughy for Fish of the Year 2025 (*not* catch of the day) 🐟 Orange Roughy are in DEEP trouble. They can live to 250 years, but are caught by destructive bottom trawlers, which devastate their deep-sea habitat on seamounts. #kikorangi www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fishoftheyea...

Orange roughy, a deep sea fish that can live for over 250 years (if it's not trawled off a seamount by New Zealand's industrial bottom trawlers) deserves to be Fish Of The Year, NOT catch of the day ...please vote here! www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fishoftheyear

The impressive #EnvironmentalLawInitiative is taking on the New Zealand Government with a Judicial Review of catch limit decisions for orange roughy. They are also campaign managers for orange roughy 🧡🐟⛰️🪸 in #FishOfTheYear (not catch of the day!) Vote here 👉 www.eli.org.nz/orange-roughy

Finally NZ media covers this important story. "New Zealand failing to release the data is clearly the government protecting the commercial fishing industry above gathering scientific information about the impact of the encounter." #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

@nzgeo.bsky.social Why you should care about an orange fish at the bottom of the ocean that you will never see. New Zealand is trawling fish that can live for centuries, destroying corals that can live for millennia, on Pacific seamounts. @deepseaconserve.bsky.social www.nzgeo.com/stories/why-...