'Irresponsible', 'breathless naivete' or 'common sense'? We fact-check the Opportunity Party's deal-breaker policy – one that fishers say would shut them down at a cost of thousands of jobs.

NAPIER/DUNEDIN, Aotearoa New Zealand — In 2016, a scandal engulfed Aotearoa New Zealand’s fisheries regulator. Leaked documents showed that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) had found, during ...

New fisheries data showing commercial trawlers reported hauling up more than 35 tonnes of protected coral and sponges from New Zealand waters over six and a half years has reignited […]

Environmental campaigners say the Ministry for Primary Industries has been forced to apologise for its failure to release fisheries information – then simply found a different excuse for not releasing...

The government has kept a controversial clause in the latest draft of its Conservation Amendment Bill, which critics say undermines the purpose of conservation law.

The Indian Ocean accounts for about a fifth of global ocean area, with 90% of it reaching deeper than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet). Yet compared to the Pacific and Atlantic, its deep-sea biodiversity is ...

A coral colony off Hawaii is 4,270 years old, and bottom trawling can destroy it in one pass. Here's the UN policy fight to stop it, and why the fight isn't over.

Researchers surveying the Hauraki Gulf’s underwater reefs have collected valuable data that will be used to monitor changes in new marine protected areas.

For 40 years a pair of divers fought to outlaw damaging fishing off Arran in Scotland. Their perseverance has let to a threefold increase in marine species

Amid renewed debate over bottom trawling, decades of marine research suggest the balance between fishing and conservation needs revisiting.

National faced a lot of backlash over the bill.

NEW YORK, May 20, 2026 –   Today, at the United Nations General Assembly, a strong majority of States affirmed simple but powerful truths: the climate crisis is not beyond the reac...

Ridler’s Swim4TheOcean campaign, aimed at raising awareness about the impacts of bottom trawling, has gathered more than 60,000 signatures.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

New Zealand's chequered history of trawling for valuable orange roughy has set conservationists against fishers for years

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

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

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.

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.

Experts said incidents involving such a large amount of coral being caught are rare.

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...

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New Zealand's only oat mill has submitted against a proposed hundredfold increase to the maximum limit of glyphosate in grains.

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”.

OPINION: ACT claims their pay equity rollback will save billions. That’s girl-math.

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 ...

The occupation is 'the first of many' says 350Aotearoa, who plans to continue to disrupting Bathurst's operations on the West Coast

Greenpeace lost big but stood firm after Energy Transfer sued the group for its role in the Standing Rock protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands

Just weeks after one offshore wind developer pulled out of New Zealand entirely, another told the Government it was pausing its activities.

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...

Greenpeace had offered to survey the site for free, using deep sea cameras during an already planned expedition to survey seamounts and other underwater mountains, but the New Zealand government refus...

The tragic trajectory of deep sea bottom trawling just got a lot weirder.