Posted on July 29th, 2010 by Ali Perkins
By MARK GEENTY – The Dominion Post
Last updated 05:00 28/07/2010
If you think swimming a length of your local pool underwater is a task, then watching David Mullins will take your breath away.
Mild-mannered office worker by day, Mullins will swap his suit for a pair of fins and become the Man from Atlantis at Porirua Aquatic [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2010 by Ali Perkins
By KIRAN CHUG – The Dominion Post
Last updated 05:00 07/07/2010
Under water grunts, chirps and pops recorded by an Auckland scientist have revealed a mysterious language used by New Zealand fish.
Audio recordings analysed for the first time in New Zealand to find out whether fish talk, will be played to an audience in Wellington today, presented [...]
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Posted on July 9th, 2010 by Ali Perkins
Our premiere screening of this Dutch documentary marks the 25th anniversary of the sinking in Auckland harbour by French government agents of the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior. Six members of the original Rainbow Warrior crew eventually settled on Waiheke Island, a location revealed through the lens of filmmaker Suzanne Raes as nothing short of [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2010 by Ali Perkins
Date: 10 June 2010
Source: Office of the Minister of Conservation
Whale sharks, katipo spiders and all giant weta will now be absolutely protected under changes to the Wildlife Act, Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson announced today.
They are among 12 previously unprotected species of invertebrate and a number of marine species, including manta ray, giant groper and [...]
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Posted on June 10th, 2010 by Ali Perkins
By TIM DONOGHUE – The Dominion Post
Last updated 05:00 08/06/2010
Hundreds of convictions involving people arrested in undercover Fisheries Ministry paua sale operations since 1996 could be overturned following a High Court decision involving a major Wellington paua poaching bust.
High Court judge Ailsa Duffy issued a May 18 decision which found the law was so poorly [...]
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