A series of full page advertisements in the Dominion Post by Seafood NZ is suggestive of an industry throwing its weight and money behind a ‘lip service’ campaign to reassure the public of a sustainable industry. Science Advisor for Our Seas Our Future, Veronica Rotman, provides some feedback to these Seafood NZ advertisements..
Straw Free September™ encourages businesses, and the general public to pledge stopping single-use straw use for a month, with a goal to adopt the change.
The world is watching to see if the New Zealand Government will place the utmost level of urgency required to prevent the possible human-caused extinction of our endemic dolphins, the Maui, and Hector’s.
“If the Government does not get this right, with the utmost urgency and priority placed on protection of these endemic dolphins, the blood of these dolphins will be on their hands”.
The underwhelming commitment by the Government and the fishing industry to address unsustainable and destructive fishing methods, and prioritise ecosystem protection is very likely going to cause the extinction of species such as the Maui dolphin.
You can join our Team Red team by using your NZ Blood App, and adding yourself to the Our Seas Our Future Team Red under “My Profile”. Your donation count will then be counted with all the other members in our Team. It is that easy!
Our Seas Our Future welcomes New Zealand’s first Wellbeing Budget 2019 for addressing the well-being of people, and our environment.
Our Seas Our Future (OSOF) is encouraged at the announcement of protection proposed for south-eastern South Island by the South-East Marine Protection Forum, with the choice of the larger area of protection favoured.
Our Seas Our Future (OSOF) is pleased at the announcement of the Zero Carbon Bill presented by the Government today. Once enacted, this key piece
Our Seas Our Future (OSOF) would like to congratulate those who participated in the School Strike for Climate which took place on Friday and involved tens of thousands of school students. As a non-profit charity organisation dedicated to raising awareness on environmental issues, this unprecedented call for political action by school students is seen as an important example of grassroots climate activism in the 21st century.
OSOF encourages the public, and all other stakeholders to express their views before the submission deadline on 17th March 2019.
Our Seas Our Future is pleased to see the Government take a stand to phase out single-use plastic bags in New Zealand. The move symbolises that the Ministry for the Environment has taken into account over 9300 submissions made by individuals, businesses and environmental advocacy groups to the Waste Free Future Consultation.
Our Seas Our Future supports and welcomes the inclusion of New Zealand’s coastal waters as a Mission Blue Hope Spot.
Our Seas Our Future would like to applaud Air New Zealand for it’s recent pledge to abandon a number of single use plastics items used onboard flights. By doing so it is estimated that the airline will single handedly reduce the use of approximately 24 million disposable plastic items each year.
Our Seas Our Future calls upon businesses to take a leadership role in response to the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Declaration.
The decision today by Countdown to no longer sell packs of single-use straws has been welcomed by the non-profit marine conservation organisation Our Seas Our Future (OSOF).
Our Seas Our Future supports the proposed ban on single-use plastic bags, and have welcomed the opportunity to comment on the Ministry for the Environment’s Waste Free Future Consultation.
Clean, lean, protein. It gets our brain working and our fat burning. Readily available, fresh or frozen, live or dead, it’s undeniable that the demand for bony fish is higher than ever.
Our Seas Our Future supports Jacinda Ardern’s decision to phase out plastic bags across the country in the next 12 months.
Clean, green New Zealand. With a dirty little secret. We are on track to becoming the first country in the world to cause the extinction of a marine dolphin. The smallest in the world – the Maui dolphin.