Bluebottle jellyfish covered with oil from the Rena oil spill, Mount Maunganui.
Coastal marine ecosystems balance on a fine ecological edge. They are dynamic and can easily be disturbed by human impact...
The discovery of tetrodotoxin (TTX) in the grey side-gilled sea slug is of particular concern to iwi who live around...
Many of New Zealand’s species are endemic – they are found nowhere else on Earth. This makes New Zealand’s biodiversity...
On 5 October 2011, Maritime New Zealand was called to respond to an ‘incident’ in the early hours of the...
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