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June 19, 2025
BACKGROUNDER: By Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor/presenter;Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific; and Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist New Zealand has paused $18.2 million in development assistance funding to the Cook Islands after its government signed partnership agreements with China earlier this year. This move is causing consternation in the realm country, with one local ... <a title="Why New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands over China deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/19/why-new-zealand-has-paused-funding-to-the-cook-islands-over-china-deal/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand has paused funding to the Cook Islands over China deal">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2025
By Laura Bergamo in Nice, France The UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) concluded today with significant progress made towards the ratification of the High Seas Treaty and a strong statement on a new plastics treaty signed by 95 governments. Once ratified, it will be the only legal tool that can create protected areas in international waters, ... <a title="‘Be brave’ warning to nations against deepsea mining from UNOC" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/17/be-brave-warning-to-nations-against-deepsea-mining-from-unoc/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Be brave’ warning to nations against deepsea mining from UNOC">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2025
By Andrew Mathieson New Caledonia has imposed a 50-year ban on deep-sea mining across its entire maritime zone in a rare and sweeping move that places the French Pacific territory among the most restricted exploration areas on the planet’s waters. The law blocks commercial exploration, prospecting and mining of mineral resources that sits within Kanaky ... <a title="Indigenous Kanaks support New Caledonia’s 50-year ban on seabed mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/13/indigenous-kanaks-support-new-caledonias-50-year-ban-on-seabed-mining/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous Kanaks support New Caledonia’s 50-year ban on seabed mining">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2024
By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica Vanuatu has taken a leading role in a bloc of nations fighting to keep marine environment protection on the main agenda of the UN organisation responsible for developing global regulations for seabed mining. The assembly of the Kingston-based International Seabed Authority is meeting this week with a packed programme, ... <a title="Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/31/vanuatu-fights-for-marine-protection-at-key-un-deep-sea-mining-summit/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2024
Asia Pacific Report About 20,000 protesters marched through the heart of New Zealand’s largest city Auckland today demonstrating against the unpopular Fast Track Approvals Bill that critics fear will ruin the country’s environment, undermine the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi with indigenous Māori, and open the door to corruption. Holding placards declaring the coalition government is ... <a title="‘Greedy lying racists’, ‘Kill the bill’, say thousands of NZ protesters over fast track draft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/09/greedy-lying-racists-kill-the-bill-say-thousands-of-nz-protesters-over-fast-track-draft/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Greedy lying racists’, ‘Kill the bill’, say thousands of NZ protesters over fast track draft">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2023
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s new President Moetai Brotherson is in Paris for wide-ranging talks with the French government and the organisers of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. His visit involves meetings with a range of ministers and officials to continue cooperation arrangements initiated by his predecessor. “I’m not here to come begging,” Brotherson said, adding ... <a title="‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/im-not-begging-tahitis-brotherson-tells-france-in-prep-for-independence/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m not begging’, Tahiti’s Brotherson tells France in prep for independence">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2022
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has accused the environment minister of defamation over seabed mining. Last week, Environment Minister Heremoana Maamaatuaiahutapu claimed Temaru’s party Tavini Huiraatira did not support an assembly vote on a seabed mining moratorium because Temaru had signed a mining contract with China when he was president. Temaru denied ... <a title="Temaru accuses Tahitian minister of libel over China seabed deal claim" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/23/temaru-accuses-tahitian-minister-of-libel-over-china-seabed-deal-claim/" aria-label="Read more about Temaru accuses Tahitian minister of libel over China seabed deal claim">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2022
RNZ Pacific Deep sea mining could begin in the Pacific as early as this month, after regulators decided to allow The Metals Company to start mining the seafloor. The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has granted permission to Nauru Oceans Resources, a subsidiary of The Metals Company, to begin exploratory mining in the Clarion Clipperton Zone ... <a title="Anger as Nauru-backed company gets go ahead to mine on seafloor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/14/anger-as-nauru-backed-company-gets-go-ahead-to-mine-on-seafloor/" aria-label="Read more about Anger as Nauru-backed company gets go ahead to mine on seafloor">Read more</a>
