Ecology – Aotea Green – Great Barrier Island News

Greenpeace petition reignites call for bottom trawling ban in Hauraki Gulf

Greenpeace has launched a fresh petition calling on Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones to ban bottom trawling, scallop dredging, and Danish seining across the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. The campaign argues that a century of seabed damage from mobile…

Ecology - Aotea Green

Plans to ‘De-Extinct’ the Moa Raise Eyebrows

Photo / Heinrich Harder (1858-1935)

Visitor Levy Funds Poison and Trapping in National Parks

The government has announced that $22 million collected from international visitors will be used over the next three years to fund large-scale poison and trapping operations, and goat culls across New Zealand’s national parks and offshore islands. Conservation Minister Tama…

Ecology - Aotea Green

New Zealand fisheries among world’s most sustainable, but critics say more could be done

A United Nations report has ranked New Zealand’s fisheries among the most sustainable on the planet, crediting decades of management and the pioneering quota system introduced in 1986. “The report compared fisheries around the world and found the region including…

Ecology - Aotea Green

Duck That: The Predator-Free Grift Gears Up for Aotea

Photo / Frank Starmer. OPINION:

A takahē and a tuatara have been filmed engaging in a bush-floor stoush in a new video captured by a quick-thinking DOC Ranger. Photo / DoC

Bush Battle on Tiritiri: Tuatara and Takahē Caught in Wild Scrap

They’re both rare, prehistoric-looking icons of the New Zealand bush. But it turns out even the nation’s most protected species aren’t above a good old-fashioned scrap. In bizarre footage snapped by Department of Conservation (DoC) ranger Nick Fisentzidis on Tiritiri…

Ecology – Aotea Green

Greenpeace petition reignites call for bottom trawling ban in Hauraki Gulf

Plans to ‘De-Extinct’ the Moa Raise Eyebrows

Visitor Levy Funds Poison and Trapping in National Parks

New Zealand fisheries among world’s most sustainable, but critics say more could be done

Duck That: The Predator-Free Grift Gears Up for Aotea

Bush Battle on Tiritiri: Tuatara and Takahē Caught in Wild Scrap

Venomous Sea Snake Found on Flat Island Near Port Fitzroy

Inner Hauraki Gulf Crayfish Ban Sparks Fears for Great Barrier

Waiheke Island to Become Auckland’s First Urban Kiwi Habitat

Viral Video: Octopus Riding Shark in Hauraki Gulf Becomes International Sensation