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On Thursday 30 October, Tāngaro Tuia te Ora – Endangered Species Foundation hosted a screening of Oceans, by David Attenborough, at Te Whare Taonga – the Waikato Museum. The evening brought together trustees, advisors and people from across the motu who care about the future of Aotearoa's marine life.

Four hundred and eighty-five people gathered at Ruakākā, Te Akau Bream Bay last weekend to send an important message: some treasures are too precious to mine. The event, organised by the Bream Bay Guardians, broke an unofficial world record for the most people making sand sculptures simultaneously, surpassing the previous record of 396 set in Belgium.

Today, we’ve launched a new petition demanding that the seafood industry stop bottom trawling in known Hector’s dolphin habitat. Why? Because it’s killing them.

In a landmark win for communities and the environment, McCallum Bros Ltd has withdrawn its High Court appeal and ceased all offshore sand mining at Pākiri and Mangawhai.