This November, the world will meet in Belém, Brazil, for COP30 – the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference. It’s a milestone moment for global climate action, as countries set new 2035 targets to curb emissions and limit warming to 1.5°C.
At the 2025 IUCN World Conservation Congress, global leaders will have a chance to change that through Motion 32 – a call to finally protect seamounts and other vulnerable marine ecosystems for good.
The Black Foils and Live Ocean have urged MPs and decision makers to read and consider this collection of Postcards for the Gulf created by Kiwis of all ages who want to see the Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill passed into legislation as soon as possible.
The Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill is a pivotal moment for the Gulf. Here’s what the Bill is, why it’s needed, and how you can help protect one of Aotearoa’s most iconic marine environments.
Our window for Swim4TheGulf started on Tuesday April 25th, with dates chosen to overlap a neap tide. The wind, however, was not playing ball. A summer of high winds had continued well into autumn.
In an important milestone for Seascape, Dr Arie Spyksma has published an academic article on the success of using underwater structure-from-motion photogrammetry on rocky reef systems in the scientific journal Frontiers in Marine Science.
Nearly 100 years after southern right whales were first protected from hunting, they face a new challenge: how to find food in a changing ocean.
Scientists have successfully attached satellite tracking tags to six New Zealand southern right whales, or tohorā, and are inviting the public to follow the whales’ travels online.
The slow and diffuse progression of unpredictable factors like climate change and invasive species can be hard to detect. What baseline or yardstick can we use to make a call about ocean health?
It was the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, still New Zealand’s only national park of the sea. The event coincided with the release of the sixth State of the Gulf report, which summarises in a few neat pages the litany of failures, exploitation and incoherence that has led to the wholesale collapse of the one of the world’s most abundant ecosystems.
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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.