Thursday 1 October 7.00pm – 9.00 pm Raglan Community House
Hear Green MP Eugenie Sage talk about the Green’s plans for Thriving Oceans and share your thoughts.
Oceans are the lifeblood of our planet, but successive governments have allowed plastic pollution, overfishing and mining, meaning our precious oceans are now under threat like never before.
The Green Party’s Thriving Oceans Plan is the boldest, most comprehensive protection for our oceans that Aotearoa has seen in decades. It rebalances our relationship with our oceans.
Join Green MP Eugenie Sage this Thursday to discuss what the Green’s Thriving Oceans Plan means for Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Green Party has released its Thriving Oceans Plan, which would dramatically increase marine
protected areas and ban bottom trawling on seamounts.
The Thriving Oceans Plan will:
• Introduce a 10-year moratorium on seabed mining
• Ensure less plastic ends up in our oceans by phasing out low quality, non-recyclable plastic, and ensuring higher value plastics are recovered and recycled on-shore in Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Protect at least 30% of Aotearoa’s oceans by 2030, with new legislation to create a network of marine protected areas. The new legislation will recognise te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori customary and commercial fishing rights.
• Ban the most harmful commercial fishing practices such as bottom trawling on seamounts and set-netting in the habitat of endangered seabirds and dolphins.
• Review the Quota Management System, in partnership with Māori within a framework that upholds rights under te Tiriti o Waitangi.
• Introduce comprehensive marine spatial planning to ensure a strategic approach is used to manage our marine spaces.
• Restore the health and abundance of the Hauraki Gulf/Tīkapa Moana/Te Moananui ā Toi by urgently phasing out the most ecologically harmful commercial fishing practices.
• Invest up to $50 million to help fishers transition to more sustainable fishing methods.
• Support robust and well-resourced monitoring and enforcement of fisheries and marine protection rules, and accelerate the implementation of cameras on boats.
• Support local marine conservation efforts with $10m a year for a Community Coastline Cleanup Fund.
• Work internationally to support the progress toward a Global Oceans Treaty.
Join in the discussion! – Thursday 1 October 7.00pm – 9.00 pm Raglan Community House