New
Zealand Fur Seals at RiskIn this area will be posted actions
you can take to help wildlife throughout the world. This will include projects
or activities of other groups as well as projects of ZooCheck NZ. In this
way we can all actively assist in the conservation and protection of wildlife.
Remember to bookmark this page and check back whenever possible as it will
be updated regularly and many of the actions listed will often need to
be undertaken at short notice.
New
Zealand Fur Seals at Risk
Despite being protected throughout our 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone by the Marine Mammals Protection Act, fur seals are still at risk from human activities. The Act needs strengthening to stop the continuing high level of seal deaths. From 1989 to 1994 an estimated 4,000 fur seals were drowned in the hoki, squid and southern blue whiting fisheries (this is a conservative extrapolation from observed catches.
Join the Royal
Forest and Bird Protection Society's Fur Seal campaign to help this
threatened species.
Albatrosses
- Long-lived or Longlined : An International Problem
Six
of the world's 14 albatross species are in decline and longline fishing
is implicated in each case. Some of these species are on the path to extinction.
In the last 20 years, around 65,000 albatrosses and petrels have been drowned
on tuna longline hooks within our 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic
Zone.
Support the Royal
Forest and Bird Society's initiatives to protect our seabirds.
If you have a project that you think
is relevant to ZooCheck, The Born Free Foundation or Wildlife Conservation
in general, and you would like to see it in our Action Agenda page, please
e-mail ZooCheck New Zealand with
details of the project. (remember to include e-mail or url contacts)
Link to main page.