Turning the Tide | Episode 1: The State of Our Seas | RNZ

[G] Episode 1 looks at the multiple issues affecting our coastal marine environment through the work of Professors Nick Shears and Conrad Pilditch of Auckland University, including first-hand evidence of kina barrens in the Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve.

The series was made by Tauihu Media and funded by the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge.

[nigelworters]

I saw this play out on my own lifetime growing up on the North Shore of Auckland from the late 70s to late 80s. From reefs covered in kelp and diverse lifeforms to kina barrens and then to bare rock once even the kina died off. That whole coastline is now dead

[Quentin-brkl]

Ironically Maori have been ignored, excluded and not heard on these issues and yet they have understood these things for centuries through Maramataka.

[wojtekgornyy]

Great job RNZ! This video should have way more views though

[brianwheeldon]

Corporate governmental regimes from the left, centre and right are the key problem in New Zealand. A big part of the solution is to get corporate money out of our political system.

[chrissiehill]

Totally agree with everything i have seen it all play out i grew up by the sea on the east coast and spent a lot of time snorkeling, the sediment now is awful its just grey sludge everywhere that kills everything. If people only knew what it really looks like under the water in many many places all that exists now in Little Manly bay beach for example is sludge, rotting vegetation and sea slugs its not a pretty sight.

[gapho]

Current state: Wet, cold and expansive, tune in again next year for the same report.