What is Bottom Trawling and Why Does It Need to End?
When we talk about protecting the ocean, the question often isn’t whether we should act, it’s where to start. Bottom trawling is a last century practice that has no place in a healthy ocean.
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Tohorā southern right whales – unexpected feeding grounds revealed
By Live Ocean Read time: 2 min Article Summary Main Points New research by Dr Emma Carroll reveals that most southern right whales from Aotearoa travel north to feed in highly productive international waters, not Antarctica as previously thought. Scientists found rich feeding grounds south of Australia and in New Zealand’s subantarctic waters that are […]
Fresh insights Show Kiwis Want Ocean Health Prioritised, for Future Generations
These are clear messages coming from fresh, independent research representing the voice of all adult New Zealanders on how we value and perceive the ocean.
In Jono’s Words – Swim4TheGulf Recap
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.
Recovering Right Whales Chart New Course
This pilot study is a first glimpse of where today’s Tohorā go to feed in summer – and it shows a startling change from the whaling era. With only 2 of probably 2,000 Tohorā tracked, we need more information to understand how often the new and old feeding grounds are used. Live Ocean is helping to fund this important research being done by the University of Auckland.
Ocean Blindness
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?
A Gulf Between Us
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.
