Demand Action: Clear the Nets!
Clear Trawling and Gillnetting out of Maui and Hector's dolphin habitat
Each year there are fewer dolphins left. How many more have to die before the New Zealand government acts and protects their entire habitat from harmful nets? Hector’s and Maui’s dolphins are the smallest and rarest marine dolphins on earth and live only in New Zealand. Gillnetting and trawling have decimated these treasured dolphins to near extinction and continue to kill them faster than they can breed.
Hector’s dolphin numbers have fallen rapidly from 29,000 to around 7,000 since the 1970s. The situation for Maui’s dolphins, a subspecies of Hector’s dolphins, is worse. With less than 50 survivors, the Maui dolphin faces imminent extinction. Less than 20 percent of the dolphins’ home is protected against set nets and less than 10 percent against trawling, which simply is not good enough to prevent their extinction. Pressure is crucial to saving Maui's dolphins and your support shows the world cares. Please join the call for a full and immediate ban of gillnetting and trawling throughout Maui’s and Hector’s dolphin habitat in coastal waters up to a depth of 100 meters, including harbors. |
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Demand McDonald's Drop New Zealand Fish
Critical Change Through Consumer Power - Take Action!
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McDonald's has an incredible opportunity to influence the outcome of a decades-long battle for New Zealand's native Maui and Hector's dolphins. Extinction or protection - Time is running out with less than 50 surviving Maui dolphins and government regulators who continually mislead public, dismiss the International Whaling Commission and fail to introduce fishing restrictions. Consumer power is the strongest and final option left by industry and government. More than 95% of these treasures drown from trawling and set nets. McDonald's sources a significant supply of its hoki from New Zealand and so supports a seafood industry which has fought and lied to continue the willful drive to extinction in its drive to maximize fisheries revenue. Seafood companies Sanford and Moana New Zealand made an unprecedented announcement in December 2016 by saying they will now "help" save Maui dolphins by ending their use of gill nets in rare Maui habitat from October 2017 - Significantly this announcement included their intention to continue trawling Maui dolphin habitat until 2022, while admitting that their industry has done so for decades.
An immediate and complete ban on commercial and recreational fishing activity in Maui dolphin habitat is required as called for repeatedly by the International Whaling Commission and International Union Conservation Nature Foundation. Apply the pressure required to make it happen. |
Please join NABU International with Ambassador for Maui dolphins and world champion free-diver William Trubridge: Demand McDonald's drop New Zealand fish until Maui dolphins are safe. Urgent calls from conservationists, scientists, marine experts, influential individuals and organizations have been dismissed for well over twenty years. Drop New Zealand fish to save Maui dolphins. Extinction is unacceptable.
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Show Your Love for Dolphins
Help raise awareness with the #SaveNZDolphins Twibbon
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Please show your love for dolphins and add our beautiful Hector's and Maui's Dolphin SOS badge to your Facebook and/or Twitter profiles. Click here and share your love for dolphins!
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News, action and inspiration
Join Hector's and Maui Dolphin SOS on Facebook
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Hector's and Maui Dolphin Tweets
Tweetsheet: https://sites.google.com/site/tilikumandco/weeklytweetsheet/savenzdolphins
Use the #SaveNZDolphins tweet-sheet to send auto-tweets - It is as easy as two clicks to demand protection for Maui and Hector's dolphins and create critical awareness! Please click on the image to start firing away and bookmark the page. Speak up for the voiceless. Every action counts!
Tweet-sheet courtesy of @CoveBlack, @SaveNZDolphins, and @TiliikumCo
Use the #SaveNZDolphins tweet-sheet to send auto-tweets - It is as easy as two clicks to demand protection for Maui and Hector's dolphins and create critical awareness! Please click on the image to start firing away and bookmark the page. Speak up for the voiceless. Every action counts!
Tweet-sheet courtesy of @CoveBlack, @SaveNZDolphins, and @TiliikumCo
Make a gift to help us protect Hector's and Maui DolphinsAny donation, however much, will make a difference and help us to keep the dolphins alive.
Please donate through PayPal now. It's easy and it's safe. Thank you! |
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We don’t have long to fix this. Saving Hector's & Maui dolphins from imminent extinction is a race against time.
Eliminating commercial and recreational gill-netting and trawling across the species' range is the only way to save Hector's and Maui's dolphins without exception.
Eliminating commercial and recreational gill-netting and trawling across the species' range is the only way to save Hector's and Maui's dolphins without exception.
- Take action and sign the petitions
- Resources including Hector's dolphin leaflet for downloading
Give them a home!
We hope you like our new Hector's and Maui's dolphin posters. Why not download one or some, print out and give pride of place in your window to help to raise awareness about New Zealand's forgotten dolphins and to show you want them to live? You can even ask your friends, neighbors and your school to do the same. Maybe your entire street will participate to create a real statement for everyone to see!
We would love to see photos of your displays, so please send them to [email protected]. Download your poster by clicking on the images For the German version of the poster, please click here. It will print out in A4 in colour or black and white. Happy printing! |
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'Let's Face It' visual petitionOur friends at ‘Let’s Face It’ are running a creative visual petition to the government to show them that there are real people behind the demand to protect Hector's and Maui's dolphins. Devised by former surf champion Peggy Oki, it's fun and makes an important point. Join LET'S FACE IT! Don't be left behind! SMILE, CLICK & LOAD and be part of this great initiative, which will come face to face with politicians in NZ soon! It's easy, it's fun and it's free and it doesn't matter where on earth you are to participate! All you need is you, a computer, and a camera! Take a photograph of yourself with a downloaded image of a dolphin, send it back to the ‘Let’s Face It’ and hey presto, your face will be immortalised as one of the people who have helped to make a stance against extinction. Find out how from the ‘Let’s Face It’ website directly. Need inspiration? Watch the video by 'Let's Face it' partner Dove Joans, who has collected more than 1300 petition photographs by herself. |
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