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6h ago
Conservation “good news” stories – the release of native birds into new habitats, for example – are always welcome. They recognise the work of conservation staff and volunteers who do the hard slog of checking trap lines and removing weeds.
The reality is, however, that Aotearoa New Zealand’s environment is in deep trouble. Talk of a “crisis” can be unhelpful if it encourages a sense of hopelessness. But with the government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill approaching rapidly, now is arguably the time to use the word.
The bill encourages development, but gives government ministers the power to circ ..read more
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6h ago
Greenpeace strongly opposes the Fast Track Approvals Bill. The draft legislation is anti-democratic, anti-transparency and creates vulnerability to corruption. It lacks any semblance of environmental protection, and in fact, removes existing protections.
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The vast majority of people in New Zealand care deeply about protecting nature. In facing the urgent threats to nature and the climate the actions we take today are crucial. But the Luxon Government has introduced what could be the singl ..read more
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4d ago
Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to how we view sharks. The Great White, we all know. But sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs, and in that time they’ve evolved into 538 different species of all different shapes and sizes – and counting. Sharks with glow-in-the-dark armpits, sharks that can fit in your pocket, sharks with spots, sharks with frills. Isla Hodgson joins Hannah in the studio, and she’s got some astonishing shark facts up her sleeve.
We’ll also meet Shaama Sandooyea, a climate activist from Mauritius who staged the world’s first ever underwater climate ..read more
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4d ago
Over the last year, our oceans have been hotter than any time ever recorded. Our instrumental record covers the last 150 years. But based on proxy observations, we can say our oceans are now hotter than well before the rise of human civilisation, very likely for at least 100,000 years.
This isn’t wholly unexpected. Ocean temperatures have been steadily rising due to human-caused global warming, which in turn means record hottest years have become increasingly common. The last time ocean temperature records were broken was 2016 and before that it was 2015. The last year we experienced a record ..read more
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4d ago
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop is one of three ministers who will have unprecedented power to approve any development project under the Fast-Track Approvals Bill. He has written to over 200 organisations inviting them to apply under it, but the catch is that he won’t tell the public the names of the organisations or how they were chosen.
Two seabed mining companies – Trans-Tasman Resources and Chatham Phosphate Company – that received the letter have publicly stated that they have been invited to re-apply under the Bill. Both had their applications turned down previously.
Chatham Rock Phosph ..read more
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4d ago
In a groundbreaking declaration earlier this month, Indigenous leaders of New Zealand and the Cook Islands signed a treaty, He Whakaputanga Moana, to recognise whales as legal persons.
A Humpback whale breaches off a reef in the Southern Great Barrier reef on its Southern Migration, Queensland, Australia. Humpback whales travel huge distances from the warm waters of the great barrier reef on the east coast of Australia to icy waters of the southern Ocean off Antarctic.
Aotearoa New Zealand has already granted legal personhood to a river (Te Awa Tupua Whanganui River), land (Te Urewera) and a m ..read more
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5d ago
Lana Young/AntarcticaNZ/NIWA/K872, CC BY-SA
Craig Stevens, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
At the end of the southern summer, Antarctica’s sea ice hit its annual minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the area of ocean that contains at least 15% of sea ice, it was a little above the record low of 2023. https://www.youtube.com/embed/v3fjX1kDLtY?wmode=transparent&start=0 Source: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio.
At the time, I was aboard the Italian icebreaker Laura Bassi, ironically surrounded by sea ice about 10km off Cape Hallett and unable to make our way to one ..read more
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6d ago
New data released by the Ministry for Primary Industries shows that commercial fishing companies have been massively underreporting their catches of dolphins, albatross and fish prior to the cameras on boats programme.
The data shows that for the 127 vessels now with cameras, reporting of dolphin captures increased nearly seven fold while reported albatross interactions were up 3.5 times. The reported volume of fish discarded has increased by almost 50%.
Greenpeace says this is proof of concept for cameras on boats.
“What this shows is exactly why a comprehensive cameras on boats programme is ..read more
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1w ago
The extent of the Luxon Government’s disregard for the environment is becoming clearer by the day.
The fast-track approvals bill is, in Luxon’s own words, a ‘one-stop shop’ – and it really is. It is a one-stop shop for short-cutting environmental protection and undermining democracy. It’s a wrecking ball in this Government’s war on nature.
This week’s announcement of a fast-track advisory group with no discernible environmental expertise adds insult to injury to the whole process.
The panel is stacked with executives from extractive industries and has nobody with any obvious expertise or ..read more
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1w ago
Greenpeace says that today’s announcement of a fast-track advisory group with no discernible environmental expertise adds insult to injury and shows just how little regard the Luxon Government has for the environment.
The coalition Government claims its ‘expert advisory group’ will provide independent recommendations to Ministers on projects to be included in the Fast Track Approvals Bill.
Greenpeace spokesperson Juressa Lee (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Rarotonga) says: “It really rubs salt into the wound to see the Luxon Government’s new fast-track advisory panel stacked with executives fro ..read more