Still waiting patiently for a Kermadec Rangitāhua Ocean Sanctuary announcement while working on Port State Measures Agreement ratification & implementation
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15 Dec 2025
A new low for NZ and @cjsbishop: the Ministry for Environment folded into mega Ministry of Housing / Urban Development and Transport stuff.co.nz/politics/3609150…. Your response to this matters @chrishipkins @nzlabour @NZGreens Do NZ Govts care about the ocean and climate change 🤷♀️
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28 Nov 2025
The current New Zealand Govt’s support for bottom trawling and deep sea mining is out of tune with science and climate action. What will you do to change that @chrishipkins @MaramaDavidson oceanographicmagazine.com/fe…
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20 Nov 2025
Just sent out this free piece. There was a weird and widely spread attempt in the media yesterday to create a fiction, that Trump's peace plan for Ukraine and Russia was a rogue operation by Steve Witkoff. That finally fell apart--and its important that it did. This is Trump, its always been Trump. And now we have incontrovertible evidence of what Trump thinks. It is not pretty.
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1 Nov 2025
Might be time for #NZ to get on board with the end to bottom trawling on seamounts in 2026 @chrisluxonmp @chrishipkins @MaramaDavidson #sealord @WWFNewZealand @GreenpeaceNZ
31 Oct 2025
At the @IUCN World Conservation Congress earlier this month, governments, scientists, Indigenous peoples’ organisations and civil society united to defend the deep. Now, ambition must become action to protect our planet’s most vital and fragile ecosystems. bit.ly/49sgE5E
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31 Oct 2025
How can @chrisluxonmp sign this ‘green economy’ agreement with a straight face when NZ is opening up oil and gas exploration, backing deep sea mining and destructive bottom trawling and letting fast track approvals roll over environmental concerns? @chrishipkins @MaramaDavidson
31 Oct 2025
Singapur y Nueva Zelanda son países amigos con los que acabamos de dar un importante paso: iniciamos oficialmente la negociación de un Acuerdo de Asociación de Economía Verde, que nos permitirá abrir nuevas oportunidades para crecer con sostenibilidad económica, social y ambiental. Junto al primer ministro de Singapur, Laurence Wong, y el primer ministro de Nueva Zelanda, Christopher Luxon, estamos seguros de que esta es la manera de enfrentar los desafíos globales actuales. La colaboración es el camino!
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The Kermadecs retweeted
14 Oct 2025
🌊 Big win for the #DeepSea
At the #IUCNCongress members voted to adopt:
✅ Motion 032 – Protecting seamounts and vulnerable marine ecosystems from destructive practices
✅ Motion 035 – Protecting mesopelagic ecosystem integrity
Thanks to those who voted science into policy 👏
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15 Oct 2025
Yesterday 95% of govt, civil society & indigenous members at @IUCN World Conservation Congress voted to end bottom trawling on seamounts on the high seas by the end of 2026. NZ is one of the countries that needs to transition away from bottom trawling @chrisluxonmp @chrishipkins
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27 Sep 2025
RT @HelenClarkNZ: Day of shame for #NZ. In late timeslot towards end of high-level segment of UN General Assembly, Foreign Minister reveals…
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25 Sep 2025
On the same day the world wakes up to this story the NZ Minister of Ocean & Fisheries welcomes the reopening of oil & gas exploration in NZ ( he’s also Minister of Resources). NZers deserve a new Ocean Minister @chrisluxonmp @chrishipkins theguardian.com/environment/…
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20 Sep 2025
I’m one of many NZers who studied Art History at school. It provides students with a lens on life. Shame that your govt doesn’t want young New Zealanders to experience that breadth of perspective and brilliance @chrisluxonmp @EricaStanfordMP stuff.co.nz/nz-news/36083043…
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The Kermadecs retweeted
28 Aug 2025
Seamounts are vast underwater mountains, home to deep-sea corals, sharks, whales & fish. They’re biodiversity hotspots but destructive bottom trawling puts them at risk of irreversible damage.
#ProtectSeamounts
ALT Image featuring a close-up view of a marine organism, possibly a coral, with text overlay explaining that seamounts are underwater mountains rich in biodiversity, crucial for healthy and resilient oceans. Credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration.
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10 Aug 2025
The Minister of Oceans in the NZ Govt of @chrisluxonmp wants to remove NZ from the Paris climate accord. What say you to that @cjsbishop @chrishipkins @_chloeswarbrick thepost.co.nz/politics/36078…
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The Kermadecs retweeted
Ahead of the @IUCN World Conservation Congress, the DSCC & @WWF_Australia urge IUCN members to support a motion calling for seamounts & other vulnerable marine ecosystems protection from destructive activities.
Our #OceanLifelines need urgent protection! deep-sea-conservation.org/re…
ALT Image of a deep-sea coral ecosystem, featuring various types of coral including a prominent orange branching coral, captured during the NERC IUCN Seamounts Project.
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4 Aug 2025
RT @HelenClarkNZ: In 2023 at #COP28, agreement was reached on need to transition away from #fossilfuels. Now #NZ flies in the face of that…
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The Kermadecs retweeted
25 Jul 2025
At #UNOC3, the deep sea finally got the spotlight it deserves!
✅4 more countries back a pause on deep-sea mining
✅Bottom trawling impacts were thrust into the spotlight
✅The Seamount Science Proclamation was launched
Discover it all in our new film: youtu.be/J9CdTh469iw
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23 Jul 2025
The rise and fall of orange roughy. When will New Zealand start learning from the lessons of stock crashes and habitat destruction elsewhere? Better now than never deep-sea-conservation.org/th… @HelenClarkNZ @WWFNewZealand @GreenpeaceNZ
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The Kermadecs retweeted
22 Jul 2025
The Orange Roughy population is collapsing!
The New Zealand government is now consulting on proposed changes to catch limits and potentially closing an area to fishing.
🗣️ Have your say by 28 July.
Call for a ban on bottom trawling to #ProtectSeamounts: endangeredspecies.org.nz/ora…
ALT The Orange Roughy fishery is collapsing in New Zealand.
ALT These are the demands for the New Zealand Government. Have your say by 28th July to save this species!
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20 Jul 2025
Way to go @SailGPNZL! Great to have #LiveOcean as a member of @DeepSeaConserve Together we can #defendthedeep
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The Kermadecs retweeted
16 Jul 2025
Seamounts need stronger protection. 95 scientists have already signed an open letter asking States and the UN for strong commitments to #ProtectSeamounts from destructive fishing.
Are you a scientist? Add your name today! ↩️ @OceanIPSO
stateoftheocean.org/seamount…
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15 Jul 2025
In the North East Atlantic the orange roughy fishery was closed due to the poor status of the stock ( closure rolled over again in 2024). Time for #NZ and @sprfmo to do the same @chrisluxonmp @mangonui08 @MFATNZ @MPI_NZ
15 Jul 2025
Essential listening here. Excellent summary of how a once abundant deep sea fish is now at risk.
Orange roughy are caught by bottom trawling. Trawling wipes out the ecosystems where roughy congregate.
#BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOceans
rnz.co.nz/news/thedetail/566…
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