Thursday, August 12, Port Dunedin: Greenpeace activists have this evening underlined the call for bottom trawling to be banned on seamounts, confronting Talley’s ship the Amaltal Explorer as it headed out for more ocean destruction. A small team of .
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August 2021 Thousands of ancient sea corals are destroyed
each year according to a new
environmental report, released today, highlighting what
could be lost if we fail to stop bottom trawling on seamount
ecosystems.
The case for banning bottom trawling on
seamounts has wide support, a 50,000 strong petition
delivered to Parliament last year, and is clearly stated in
the new report from a wide coalition of organisations (1),
who will present it to the Environment Select Committee on
Thursday morning (2).
The report reveals that 128 new
species were discovered on New Zealand’s or Aotearoa’s
seamounts in the past three years - all from bycatch from
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