Karli Thomas
@savethefush.bsky.social
Ocean conservation with a kiwi accent.
Local government in Aotearoa is stepping up on behalf of the kiwi people to protect our ocean from bottom trawling, meanwhile the government and trawl industry are hell-bent on keeping this last-century fishing method afloat. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Industry opposition to bottom trawling ban “outrageous” - Greenpeace Aotearoa
News that fishing industry lobby group Seafood New Zealand will actively oppose a ground breaking, community-supported plan to ban bottom trawling along the Coromandel Coast shows how out-of-touch it ...
www.greenpeace.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Local government in Aotearoa is stepping up on behalf of the kiwi people to protect our ocean from bottom trawling, meanwhile the government and trawl industry are hell-bent on keeping this last-century fishing method afloat. www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...
Dodgy a.f. political persecution of a Ukrainian scientist to prevent his involvement in Antarctic conservation efforts, and an accidental admission by Russia of its Antarctic mining interests. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Russia's interest in Antarctic oil exposed after scientist's arrest
A document linked to the arrest of a scientist has raised questions about whether Russia has long-term ambitions to exploit oil resources in Antarctica, where mining is banned indefinitely.
www.abc.net.au
October 31, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Dodgy a.f. political persecution of a Ukrainian scientist to prevent his involvement in Antarctic conservation efforts, and an accidental admission by Russia of its Antarctic mining interests. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
I hope we don't have to wait too long for the scrapping of and apology for this travesty. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/21/f...
Final showdown in Parliament as Government pushes through Marine and Coastal Area law changes
Parliament passed MACA amendments amid protests. Government says clarity; critics say it erodes Māori rights, tightens CMT/PCR tests, overrides court rulings, and sparks legal uncertainty.
www.teaonews.co.nz
October 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I hope we don't have to wait too long for the scrapping of and apology for this travesty. www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/10/21/f...
FBI sets up shop in Aotearoa and gifts illegal 3D-printed guns to top cops. Could you get any more tone-deaf? Why are we inviting this militaristic gun-crazed attitude into our country in the first place? We know where it leads, and it aint pretty. apnews.com/article/kash...
FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws
On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed.
apnews.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
FBI sets up shop in Aotearoa and gifts illegal 3D-printed guns to top cops. Could you get any more tone-deaf? Why are we inviting this militaristic gun-crazed attitude into our country in the first place? We know where it leads, and it aint pretty. apnews.com/article/kash...
Bottom trawling fish that can live for two centuries, off from seamounts where they go to breed, and "oops" also dragging up corals that can be thousands of years old (sometimes tonnes at a time)... New Zealand sustainable fisheries my arse. dialogue.earth/en/ocean/ins...
Inside the battle over trawling a 200-year-old deep-sea fish
New Zealand's chequered history of trawling for valuable orange roughy has set conservationists against fishers for years
dialogue.earth
September 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Bottom trawling fish that can live for two centuries, off from seamounts where they go to breed, and "oops" also dragging up corals that can be thousands of years old (sometimes tonnes at a time)... New Zealand sustainable fisheries my arse. dialogue.earth/en/ocean/ins...
Against the advice of his own officials, NZ's Minister of Oceans and Fisheries (actually, screw the ocean, just fisheries) tries to put his dodgy decisions above the law, and divorce catch limits from environmental impacts. Deranged and ego-maniacal spring to mind. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/27/o...
Fisheries minister's constraint on court challenges 'restrictive' – officials
MPI warned a 20 working day deadline to file court cases could be viewed as restricting the right to judicial reviews, suggesting a much longer timeframe
newsroom.co.nz
August 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Against the advice of his own officials, NZ's Minister of Oceans and Fisheries (actually, screw the ocean, just fisheries) tries to put his dodgy decisions above the law, and divorce catch limits from environmental impacts. Deranged and ego-maniacal spring to mind. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/27/o...
What Dame Anne said. Just who is the New Zealand government working for? Not the people of this country, it seems. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/23/a...
Anne Salmond: Who is this Government working for?
On a range of environmental and legal measures involving forestry, the coalition Government seems to be doing the opposite of what people and communities need, writes Dame Anne Salmond
newsroom.co.nz
August 25, 2025 at 6:43 AM
What Dame Anne said. Just who is the New Zealand government working for? Not the people of this country, it seems. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/23/a...
@newsroom.co.nz on the latest fisheries f***uppery from our Minister, firmly in the pocket of the trawl industry. Highlights include the ability to put fisheries mgmt on autopilot. Suffice to say, that's not gone well for near-collapse Chatham Rise orange roughy. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/06/f...
Fishing industry nets changes to cameras, discards and catch restrictions
Fisheries Minister Shane Jones says the changes are the biggest in 40 years, and will put an end to 'reckless' legal attacks that demonise fishers. Jonathan Milne reports.
newsroom.co.nz
August 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
@newsroom.co.nz on the latest fisheries f***uppery from our Minister, firmly in the pocket of the trawl industry. Highlights include the ability to put fisheries mgmt on autopilot. Suffice to say, that's not gone well for near-collapse Chatham Rise orange roughy. newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/06/f...
Great news from Te Tapuwae o Rongokako marine reserve in Tai Rāwhiti. The first "generational review" has just been done on the reserve, and it's a winner 💙 congrats to Ngati Konohi, DoC, EMR and all involved in this protection and allowing the ocean to flourish again. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
Marine reserve's 25-year review: 'When things aren't fished the place changes'
The jewel of the East Cape's coastline is under review for the first time in 25 years, with locals hoping the marine reserve will remain protected for many generations to come.
www.rnz.co.nz
August 4, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Great news from Te Tapuwae o Rongokako marine reserve in Tai Rāwhiti. The first "generational review" has just been done on the reserve, and it's a winner 💙 congrats to Ngati Konohi, DoC, EMR and all involved in this protection and allowing the ocean to flourish again. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
🪸 heartbreaking 6 tonne bycatch 🪸 If you were shocked by bottom trawling in Sir David Attenborough’s film Ocean, you’ll be appalled by the devastation from bottom trawling in New Zealand. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr...
'Attenborough would be mortified': Six tonnes of coral bycatch off Christchurch
Experts said incidents involving such a large amount of coral being caught are rare.
www.nzherald.co.nz
June 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🪸 heartbreaking 6 tonne bycatch 🪸 If you were shocked by bottom trawling in Sir David Attenborough’s film Ocean, you’ll be appalled by the devastation from bottom trawling in New Zealand. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bottom-tr...
More of this please! Chef Alex Davies of Gatherings Restaurant in Ōtautahi Christchurch ditches bottom trawled fish in favour of more sustainable options 💙 #OceanFilm #BanBottomTrawling www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Popular restaurant ditches fish over bottom trawling concerns
A Christchurch restaurant has decided to stop serving most fish from its menu. Gatherings have made the move, over concerns about the impacts of bottom trawling on our ocean environment. Gatherings ow...
www.rnz.co.nz
May 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
More of this please! Chef Alex Davies of Gatherings Restaurant in Ōtautahi Christchurch ditches bottom trawled fish in favour of more sustainable options 💙 #OceanFilm #BanBottomTrawling www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...
Reposted by Karli Thomas
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May 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Seafood NZ wishes a "happy birthday" to Sir David Attenborough by telling him about how wonderful all our bottom trawling is. WTAF are these people thinking? #BottomTrawling #TheWorstBirthdayPresentEver @greenpeace.org.nz responds: www.instagram.com/reel/DJqdtyETtWs
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May 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Seafood NZ wishes a "happy birthday" to Sir David Attenborough by telling him about how wonderful all our bottom trawling is. WTAF are these people thinking? #BottomTrawling #TheWorstBirthdayPresentEver @greenpeace.org.nz responds: www.instagram.com/reel/DJqdtyETtWs
NZ government wants glyphosate residue limits 100 times HIGHER. Wrong direction, idiots. Businesses have submitted against the change, for obvious reasons. Even Federated Farmers, usually pretty aligned to a right wing government, doesn't support the increase. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/19/h...
Herbicide review bad for business, Harraways says
New Zealand's only oat mill has submitted against a proposed hundredfold increase to the maximum limit of glyphosate in grains.
newsroom.co.nz
May 19, 2025 at 10:03 PM
NZ government wants glyphosate residue limits 100 times HIGHER. Wrong direction, idiots. Businesses have submitted against the change, for obvious reasons. Even Federated Farmers, usually pretty aligned to a right wing government, doesn't support the increase. newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/19/h...
WWF calls out Seafood New Zealand on their "birthday message to Sir David Attenborough." SNZ represents industrial trawlers of the only country still bottom trawling seamounts in the South Pacific high seas. You know what they *could* do for his birthday, right? www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
A tone-deaf happy birthday message to David Attenborough
OPINION: The fishing industry claims its track record is “the sort of good news a global treasure like Sir David needs on his 99th Birthday”, rolling out a litany of “alternative facts”.
www.thepost.co.nz
May 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
WWF calls out Seafood New Zealand on their "birthday message to Sir David Attenborough." SNZ represents industrial trawlers of the only country still bottom trawling seamounts in the South Pacific high seas. You know what they *could* do for his birthday, right? www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
Andrea Vance is on fire writing about the absolute travesty of a government that throws working women and their families under the bus by cancelling pay equity legislation to pay for tax cuts to landlords and property investors. www.thepress.co.nz/a/politics/3...
May 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Andrea Vance is on fire writing about the absolute travesty of a government that throws working women and their families under the bus by cancelling pay equity legislation to pay for tax cuts to landlords and property investors. www.thepress.co.nz/a/politics/3...
David Attenborough's film OCEAN is a must-watch. As well as breathtaking beauty from the tropics to the poles, brace yourself for horrendous footage of bottom trawling. This last-century fishing method is still widely used in Aotearoa NZ waters, responsible for 99% of coral bycatch.
Recommended watch: A new feature-length documentary “Ocean With David Attenborough” is in cinemas now.
Ocean with David Attenborough | Official Website | 8 May 2025
Watch the trailer, find screenings & book tickets for Ocean with David Attenborough on the official site. In cinemas 8 May 2025 brought to you by Altitude Film. Directed by: Toby Nowlan, Colin…
buff.ly
May 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
David Attenborough's film OCEAN is a must-watch. As well as breathtaking beauty from the tropics to the poles, brace yourself for horrendous footage of bottom trawling. This last-century fishing method is still widely used in Aotearoa NZ waters, responsible for 99% of coral bycatch.
There are many things going wrong in the US right now, this is one of them. news.mongabay.com/2025/04/unde...
Under Trump, US retreats from global fisheries and oceans leadership
This is Part 2 of a two-part series on fisheries management and oceans governance under the second Trump administration, which took office Jan. 20. Part 1 looks at the potential impacts that cuts and ...
news.mongabay.com
May 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
There are many things going wrong in the US right now, this is one of them. news.mongabay.com/2025/04/unde...
So this govt is happy with a mining company that costs more tax $ in acid mine remediation annually than the entire coal sector yields in royalties. I myself care as much about blind frogs, but how is this a good idea in anyone's book? Excellent work, those protesters. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/20/p...
Protesters set up camp at fast-tracked coal mine
The occupation is 'the first of many' says 350Aotearoa, who plans to continue to disrupting Bathurst's operations on the West Coast
newsroom.co.nz
April 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So this govt is happy with a mining company that costs more tax $ in acid mine remediation annually than the entire coal sector yields in royalties. I myself care as much about blind frogs, but how is this a good idea in anyone's book? Excellent work, those protesters. newsroom.co.nz/2025/04/20/p...
Don't buy these crap products, made from a toxic mix of colonisation and rainforest destruction. #KitKat #Pantene #Oreos #Nestlé #Procter&Gamble www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide
Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Don't buy these crap products, made from a toxic mix of colonisation and rainforest destruction. #KitKat #Pantene #Oreos #Nestlé #Procter&Gamble www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
What the actual F***, NZ Government. Trading away renewable energy for one Minister's fast-track seabed mining invite to a company that's already had its permits rejected by our Supreme Court. We need leadership, not a sandpit fight over junior parties' pet projects. newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/14/s...
Second firm halts plans for offshore wind farms
Just weeks after one offshore wind developer pulled out of New Zealand entirely, another told the Government it was pausing its activities.
newsroom.co.nz
March 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
What the actual F***, NZ Government. Trading away renewable energy for one Minister's fast-track seabed mining invite to a company that's already had its permits rejected by our Supreme Court. We need leadership, not a sandpit fight over junior parties' pet projects. newsroom.co.nz/2025/03/14/s...
Nature is our greatest asset, not ‘green tape’ - wise words from Kayla Kingdon-Bebb of WWF New Zealand.
Nature is our greatest asset, not 'green tape'
Comment: Focused on 'growth, growth, growth', our political leaders are painting nature as a hindrance to economic growth and bemoaning environmental protections as annoying bureaucratic hurdles, writ...
newsroom.co.nz
March 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Nature is our greatest asset, not ‘green tape’ - wise words from Kayla Kingdon-Bebb of WWF New Zealand.
Reposted by Karli Thomas
🐟 Vote the Orange Roughy for Fish of the Year 2025
(*not* catch of the day) 🐟
Orange Roughy are in DEEP trouble. They can live to 250 years, but are caught by destructive bottom trawlers, which devastate their deep-sea habitat on seamounts.
#kikorangi
www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fishoftheyea...
(*not* catch of the day) 🐟
Orange Roughy are in DEEP trouble. They can live to 250 years, but are caught by destructive bottom trawlers, which devastate their deep-sea habitat on seamounts.
#kikorangi
www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fishoftheyea...
March 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
🐟 Vote the Orange Roughy for Fish of the Year 2025
(*not* catch of the day) 🐟
Orange Roughy are in DEEP trouble. They can live to 250 years, but are caught by destructive bottom trawlers, which devastate their deep-sea habitat on seamounts.
#kikorangi
www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fishoftheyea...
(*not* catch of the day) 🐟
Orange Roughy are in DEEP trouble. They can live to 250 years, but are caught by destructive bottom trawlers, which devastate their deep-sea habitat on seamounts.
#kikorangi
www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fishoftheyea...
Orange roughy, a deep sea fish that can live for over 250 years (if it's not trawled off a seamount by New Zealand's industrial bottom trawlers) deserves to be Fish Of The Year, NOT catch of the day ...please vote here! www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fishoftheyear
Fish of the Year | Mountains to Sea
www.mountainstosea.org.nz
March 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Orange roughy, a deep sea fish that can live for over 250 years (if it's not trawled off a seamount by New Zealand's industrial bottom trawlers) deserves to be Fish Of The Year, NOT catch of the day ...please vote here! www.mountainstosea.org.nz/fishoftheyear