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We’re only just starting to understand the deep sea and, by extension, our planet. Moving forward with something as intrusive and invasive as deep-sea mining in a place about which we still have so much to learn simply makes no sense."

I've explored the ocean's deepest part. Trump wants to destroy it. | Opinion
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/02/19/trump-deep-sea-mining-ocean-conservation/88663439007/

#protectTheOcean #StopSeabedMining #stopDeepSeaMining #oceans

USA TODAY

I've explored the ocean's deepest part. Trump wants to destroy it. | Opinion

I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 2 days ago

🌊 🐙
"We may ruin the ocean before we even understand it.

I've explored the ocean's deepest part. Trump wants to destroy it. | Opinion
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/02/19/trump-deep-sea-mining-ocean-conservation/88663439007/

#protectTheOcean #StopSeabedMining #stopDeepSeaMining #oceans

USA TODAY

I've explored the ocean's deepest part. Trump wants to destroy it. | Opinion

I've been to the Mariana Trench. The choice is clear: Protect one of earth's last frontiers or destroy it before we even understand what we're losing.

Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 3 days ago

Send a message to political leaders in New Zealand, demanding an outright ban to seabed mining, so we don't have to keep fighting off this ridiculous and destructive project for another decade.

https://greenpeace.nz/qldlh3

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol #oceans

Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 2 days ago

Watch the video of yesterday's trespass notice being served to wannabe seabed miners TTR, at their Sydney office, on behalf of Taranaki Iwi by Rukutai Watene from Ngāti Ruanui and Greenpeace activists. ✊ 🌊

https://media.greenpeace.org/Detail/27MZIFJRAPXJ3

#ProtectTheOcean #StopSeabedMining #oceans #NZPol

Greenpeace - "Trespass’ Notice Delivery to Seabed Mining Company in Sydney - News Access

- GP0SU8C8Q Māori activist Rukutai Watene from Taranaki delivers a ‘trespass’ notice to Trans Tasman Resources in Sydney, warning the company to not pursue seabed mining in Aotearoa - New Zealand. The notice was hand delivered by Rukutai Watene on behalf of Ngāti Ruanui and Greenpeace Aotearoa at the headquarters of Manuka Resources - parent company of Trans Tasman Resources (TTR) - sending a message that seabed mining is not welcome in Aotearoa. For over a decade TTR has been trying - and failing - to start an iron sand mining operation in the South Taranaki Bight. If it went ahead, the seabed mine off the coast of Taranaki would be one of the first in the world and cause damage to ocean life and habitats.

Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 3 days ago

The members of TTR/Manuka Resources locked themselves inside an office to avoid the activists serving them a trespass notice.

l o l

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol

Rukutai Watene from Ngāti Ruanui delivers a trespass notice to seabed mining wannabe company Trans tasman Resources, whose members have locked themselves in an office to avoid the activists.
Behind the indigenous representative, three activists hold banners reading Ban Seabed Mining and Don't Mine the Moana — Rukutai Watene from Ngāti Ruanui delivers a trespass notice to seabed mining wannabe company Trans tasman Resources, whose members have locked themselves in an office to avoid the activists. Behind the indigenous representative, three activists hold banners reading Ban Seabed Mining and Don't Mine the Moana

Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 3 days ago

Send a message to political leaders in New Zealand, demanding an outright ban to seabed mining, so we don't have to keep fighting off this ridiculous and destructive project for another decade.

https://greenpeace.nz/qldlh3

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol #oceans

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Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 3 days ago

BREAKING 📢

Trans-Tasman Resources has been trespassed from the moana in Taranaki, by representatives of Ngāti Ruanui alongside Greenpeace activists. ✊ 🌊

Read all about it: 📰

Seabed miners trespassed from Taranaki waters, after Fast Track withdrawal
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/seabed-miners-trespassed-from-taranaki-waters-after-fast-track-withdrawal/

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol #Oceans #greenpeace

Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 3 days ago

BREAKING 📢

Trans-Tasman Resources has been trespassed from the moana in Taranaki, by representatives of Ngāti Ruanui alongside Greenpeace activists. ✊ 🌊

Read all about it: 📰

Seabed miners trespassed from Taranaki waters, after Fast Track withdrawal
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/seabed-miners-trespassed-from-taranaki-waters-after-fast-track-withdrawal/

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol #Oceans #greenpeace

Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 3 days ago

The members of TTR/Manuka Resources locked themselves inside an office to avoid the activists serving them a trespass notice.

l o l

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol

Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 3 days ago

Please stand by

Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · 3 days ago

BREAKING 📢

Trans-Tasman Resources has been trespassed from the moana in Taranaki, by representatives of Ngāti Ruanui alongside Greenpeace activists. ✊ 🌊

Read all about it: 📰

Seabed miners trespassed from Taranaki waters, after Fast Track withdrawal
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/seabed-miners-trespassed-from-taranaki-waters-after-fast-track-withdrawal/

#StopSeabedMining #ProtectTheOcean #NZPol #Oceans #greenpeace

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Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · last week

Join me, with a full chest and great joy, saying out loud:

SUCK IT, TRANS-TASMAN RESOURCES!
WE WON! 🌊 🐳

Seabed mining company TTR gives up on the Fast Track process – Greenpeace
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/seabed-mining-company-ttr-gives-up-on-the-fast-track-process-greenpeace/

#ProtectTheOcean #stopSeabedMining #oceans #NZPol #goodNews

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Ika Makimaki

@pezmico@mastodon.nz · last week

Jones responding to our polling with some misleading info:
🐟 1000 ton would be less than half of the reported catch in one fisheries area from 2024, the one considered to be collapsing. If that is all that remains then things are truly dire!
🐟 What are these "other nations that are there" that he speaks of? Only New Zealand bottom trawls in the south pacific high seas. Therefore we have the WORST track record using the MOST DESTRUCTIVE method available.
Sick of the implied and reflexive "racism as a defense" NZFirst is so fond of.

Minister defends bottom trawling, despite poll showing majority of NZers want it banned
https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/587141/minister-defends-bottom-trawling-despite-poll-showing-majority-of-nzers-want-it-banned

#NZPol #BanBottomTrawling #ProtectTheOcean #oceans #fisheries

RNZ

Minister defends bottom trawling, despite poll showing majority of NZers want it banned

A new poll shows a majority of New Zealanders want the fishing method of bottom trawling banned, but Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is not of this view.