Live Ocean today announced a further $100,000 donation from Hugo Charitable Trust that will help support Dr Caitlin Blain, of the University of Auckland, as she moves into the next phase of her pioneering research into the role kelp forests play in the coastal carbon cycle.
For years, tracking the migration of tākoketai black petrel was a race against the battery. Devices lasted only a couple of months – long enough to watch a chick leave the colony, but not long enough to see where its journey truly ended. That has changed.
New Zealand’s Black Foils have won the Better Planet award in SailGP’s global Impact League, recognising their contribution to a New Zealand campaign by Live Ocean to end bottom trawling and the record-breaking swim by Jono Ridler that drove it.
Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) issuing of an International Fishing Permit undermines obligations to protect seamounts and other vulnerable marine ecosystems on the high seas.
The debate has gone on long enough. It’s time for action. There are practical steps that can be taken now to reduce the impact of bottom trawling while supporting a managed transition for industry. That should begin with protecting seamounts.
The Swim4TheOcean petition was formally presented and read in Parliament on 29 April. Last week, on 10 June, Live Ocean and Jono Ridler lodged a written submission in support of the petition’s call to end bottom trawling, outlining in more detail our case for change. Our submission highlights that only Government can lead the change, based on the scientific evidence on bottom trawling impacts, the growth in public concern, and how New Zealand remains out of step internationally.
Hundreds of people joined Live Ocean, Jono Ridler and the Black Foils at Takapuna Beach this morning as part of the annual Live Ocean Winter Dip, helping launch a challenge for people across Aotearoa and around the world to get in the water for World Ocean Day.
Manta Watch Aotearoa New Zealand is preparing for its biggest expedition yet, with Lydia Green joining a 1,100-nautical-mile voyage from Aotearoa to Tonga to investigate mysterious deaths of endangered oceanic manta rays.
Live Ocean and the Black Foils are teaming up for the annual Live Ocean Winter Dip on 7 June at Takapuna Beach, inviting the public to celebrate ocean health and support the call to end bottom trawling.
After 90 days in the ocean and a nationwide wave of support, the Swim4TheOcean petition is now being formally taken to Parliament, with 73,647 unique signatures – each one a call to end bottom trawling, starting with seamounts.
We’re on a mission to create 1,000 postcards to protect the Hauraki Gulf and we need your help.
Send us your favourite ocean photo and a few words about what you love most about the Gulf, and together, we’ll spotlight why the Gulf deserves urgent protection – for us, and for future generations.