Understanding Kelp & Carbon

PROJECTS / Project Summary Project Status: Location: Kelp reefs in Hauraki Gulf = est. $8million in carbon storage Kelp forests provide important stores of carbon Investigating the long-term fate of carbon fixed by kelp Photo Credit / Josie Mason IS KELP CLIMATE’SNEXT SUPERHERO? It’s possible the ocean’s kelp forests have unrealised potential which could prove […]

Toroa Antipodean Albatross

Antipodean albatross | Toroa (Diomedea anitpodensis) at the subantarctic Antipodes Islands | Moutere Mahue, New Zealand. Monday 20 February 2023. Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023. Licenced Image to Live Ocean for Non Exclusive, Non-Transferable, Non-Assignable, Non Commercial, Non Editorial, License in Perpetuity for Advertising and Outreach, Worldwide Territory.

PROJECTS / Project Summary Project Status: Location: They’re on the fast track to extinction – 2,300 of these birds are being lost each year. Their #1 threat is seabird bycatch through surface long-line fishing. These deaths are preventable through the use of ‘3 out of 3’ proven mitigation techniques, including setting fishing lines at night, adding […]

Postcards for the Gulf

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.