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Ocean-roaming birds under threat
"Every year between 50 and 100 million longline hooks are set in the Southern Ocean
... lines trail behind fishing boats for up to 130km as they move into the most
far-flung waters in search of new fishing grounds ..."
9 October 2004
New Zealand Herald
Nets leave a trail of death in the sea
"It's quiet at the bottom of the ocean and dark where sunlight never reaches.
But illuminate it with artificial light and strange life emerges"
9 October 2004
New Zealand Herald
Axe taken to $300m hoki quota
"The Government has taken drastic steps to rebuild the deepwater hoki fishery,
slashing the allowable commercial catch by 80,000 tonnes to 100,000 tonnes ..."
24 September 2004
New Zealand Herald
Fish expert sounds warning on stocks
"The future for global fisheries is not rosy ... governments should be setting aside
up to half of fishing grounds as marine reserves to ensure the future of sea life ..."
17 August 2004
New Zealand Herald
New island sanctuaries to fight extinction of signature species
"Conservation Minister Chris Carter today announced a $7 million project to create two
island sanctuaries for threatened native wildlife ..."
New Zealand Herald
12 May 2004
Government plays down discovery of contaminated seeds
"The Government today played down a discovery of imported maize seed contaminated with
genetically engineered (GE) material ..."
New Zealand Herald
12 May 2004
Harvest fears as MAF starts search for lost seed
"Thousands of genetically modified maize plants may have been harvested in the country's
biggest accidental release of GM-contaminated seed"
New Zealand Herald
12 May 2004
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Twenty nations negotiating the formation of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation, have agreed to interim measures to control high seas bottom trawling.
10 May 2007
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Nature photographer Geoff Moon joins TerraNature as an Honorary Trustee
24 November 2006
World renowned photographer of New Zealand's natural history, Geoff Moon, has been appointed as a TerraNature Honorary Trustee. Geoff is well known for his wonderful images of New Zealand birds, some of which are on terranature.org. |
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In appointing Geoff, the Trustees pay tribute to his extensive work of recording nature, which is of immense educational value, and has been an exceptional contribution to influencing conservation in New Zealand for a long period of time.
Left: Harrier, Geoff Moon
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Geoff's images have appeared in many books, including the first bird guide, Reed Field Guide to New Zealand Birds, New Zealand's Birds which won a Special Award for Photography in the New Zealand Book Awards in 1983, The Natural World of the Maori, New Zealand: Land of Birds (2002), and New Zealand Birds in Focus: A Photographer's Journey (2005).
Geoff is involved with numerous natural history organisations. He is honored as an Honorary Fellow of the Photographic Society of New Zealand, an Honorary Life Member of the New Zealand Veterinary Association, and with the OBE in 1994. |
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Ocean CO2 may 'harm marine life'
"Nearly 50% of the carbon dioxide that humans have pumped into the atmosphere over
the last 200 years has been absorbed by the sea ..."
BBC NEWS 15 July 2004
$14bn cost of protecting oceans
"A team of UK scientists has come up with a cost for establishing a global network of
marine "parks" to protect threatened ocean ecosystems"
BBC NEWS 15 June 2004
Urgent action call on US climate
"Ten leading US climate scientists spoke on Tuesday of the need for more urgent action
to tackle global warming ..."
BBC NEWS 15 June 2004
World faces seeping flood crisis
"The number of people under threat from major flooding will double to two billion
within 50 years, the UN warns ..."
BBC NEWS 13 June 2004
Ice cores unlock climate secrets
"Global climate patterns stretching back 740,000 years have been confirmed by a
three-kilometre-long ice core drilled from the Antarctic ..."
BBC NEWS 9 June 2004
Wetter world predicted to counter greenhouse gases
"Australian scientists have found the Earth may be more resilient to global warming than
first thought, and they say a warmer world means a wetter planet, encouraging more plants
to grow and soak up greenhouse gases ..."
New Zealand Herald 12 May 2004
Disaster movie makes waves
"But could the climate crash 'the day after tomorrow'?"
Nature, Science Update 12 May 2004
Global warming could soon make Antarctica the only place to live, says
chief British scientist
"Antarctica is likely to be the world's only habitable continent by the end of this century
if global warming remains unchecked ..."
New Zealand Herald 2 May 2004
Less rain in a warmer world
"Global warming and pollution could give us drier days ..."
Nature, Science Update 1 April 2004
While north froze NZ might have stayed temperate
"New Zealand scientists have found evidence that the Southern Hemisphere may have
escaped the extremes of the last Ice Age which froze much of Europe, Russia and
North America ..."
New Zealand Herald 26 January 2004
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Marine scientist Bill Brownell joins TerraNature Board of Trustees |
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15 November 2006
After serving on TerraNature's Advisory Council, Bill Brownell has become a Trustee. He brings valuable experience to the Board from a long career in marine science research, management, education, and conservation in Benin, Ghana, West Africa, Venuzuela, the Caribbean, United States, Canada and New Zealand. |
Bill founded the consulting firm Tikapa Kahawai Coastal Marine Advisory Service, and currently has a particular interest in the vital Firth of Thames estuarine ecosystem and Ramsar site, as co-leader of the “Muddy Feet” project focusing on ecological research and sustainable management.
He was the co-founder and served as Chair of the Trustees and lecturer in fisheries policy coastal management and marine ecology, of Ecoquest New Zealand which offers a study abroad program applied field ecology, resource management and environmental policy, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire.
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TerraNature joins International Ocean Noise Coalition
20 January 2006
TerraNature has become a partner organisation of the International Ocean Noise Coalition,
a group of 140 environmental and animal welfare groups with millions of members worldwide.
IONC is dedicated to bringing groups together to protect marine life from intense underwater
noise.
Marine animals rely on sound for most aspects of their life, just as land animals
rely on light to see. Rising levels of human-generated ocean noise is drowning natural ambient
noise, and the ability of marine mammals to communicate, navigate and catch prey. In some parts
of the ocean, air guns located up to 3000km away can be heard going off every few seconds day
and night, and are the predominant noise.
See International Ocean Noise Coalition
See "Underwater noise: Death knell of our oceans?" |
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New TerraNature deep-sea conservation objectives ...
TerraNature is working as an advocate for the conservation of deep-sea biodiversity, which has very quickly become the new environmental frontier.
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Two deep-sea issues of primary interest are the destruction of cold water coral by bottom
trawling, and the protection of seamount environments. Work is being initiated to cause the future designation of marine reserves throughout the New Zealand exclusive economic zone, to protect the unique marine ecosystems that are now being discovered.
There has been little publicity until recently, about the ongoing coral destruction by the New Zealand fishing industry. It poses a real threat to sustainability and the future of deep-sea fishing, when habitat is removed.
Unfortunately, scientists are learning more about deep-sea coral from the broken pieces dragged up in bottom trawl nets, than they are from living specimens on the seafloor. |
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TerraNature is acting to increase public awareness of
increasing depletion of fish such as orange roughy in the New Zealand fishery. |
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Seamounts - discovery of a new ocean world