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January 28, 2026
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Pacific delegates in the United States Congress are warning efforts to fast-track deep-seabed mining could sideline island communities and cause irreversible damage to fragile ocean ecosystems. The concerns were raised at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing in Washington last week, held a day ... <a title="Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/28/pacific-delegates-warn-against-us-fast-tracking-seabed-mining/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Dr Satyendra Prasad Internationally, we are marking the 2025 Human Rights Day at a time of extraordinary retreat from human rights protection across the World. Every human right, every breach of human right and every advance in the protection of human rights must matter equally to us. The frameworks for human rights protection ... <a title="Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/06/climate-change-and-human-rights-demands-telling-our-pacific-stories-with-clarity-and-impact/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2025
By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves host The future of the Manawanui wreckage and potential compensation payments remain a major talking point in Samoa. The Royal New Zealand Navy vessel ran aground on a reef off the south coast of Upolu in October last year and sank. New ... <a title="‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage compensation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/19/were-eating-tinned-fish-samoa-villagers-plead-for-manawanui-wreckage-compensation/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage compensation">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2025
By Emma Page Greenpeace says moves to weaken ocean protection through dodgy fisheries “reforms” will be met with strong opposition, as Oceans and Fisheries Minister Shane Jones announces he wants to proceed with a raft of proposed changes to fisheries laws. The controversial changes are some of the largest in decades, and would restrict public ... <a title="Greenpeace condemns NZ’s ‘dodgy reforms’ plan weakening ocean protection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/08/07/greenpeace-condemns-nzs-dodgy-reforms-plan-weakening-ocean-protection/" aria-label="Read more about Greenpeace condemns NZ’s ‘dodgy reforms’ plan weakening ocean protection">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2025
By Emma Page Greenpeace activists on board the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior disrupted an industrial longlining fishing operation in the South Pacific, seizing almost 20 km of fishing gear and freeing nine sharks — including an endangered mako — near Australia and New Zealand. Crew retrieved the entire longline and more than 210 baited hooks ... <a title="Greenpeace activists aboard Rainbow Warrior disrupt Pacific industrial fishing operation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/12/greenpeace-activists-aboard-rainbow-warrior-disrupt-pacific-industrial-fishing-operation/" aria-label="Read more about Greenpeace activists aboard Rainbow Warrior disrupt Pacific industrial fishing operation">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2025
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s president has announced his administration will establish one of the world’s largest networks of highly protected marine areas (MPAs). The highly protected areas will safeguard 220,000 sq km of remote waters near the Society Islands and 680,000 sq km near the Gambier Islands. Speaking at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, ... <a title="French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/06/11/french-polynesia-president-announces-huge-highly-protected-marine-area/" aria-label="Read more about French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2025
By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including areas within the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. It allows commercial fishing in areas long considered off-limits due to their ecological significance — despite overwhelming scientific consensus that marine ... <a title="Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/trump-executive-orders-roll-back-ocean-fisheries-protections-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Norway is stopping the first licensing round for deep sea mining in Arctic waters — and Greenpeace Aotearoa says this is putting pressure on the Luxon government to follow suit. “This move by Norway to stop the seabed mining in its tracks is a historic win for ocean protection and for the ... <a title="Norway halts seabed mining, putting more pressure on NZ to do same" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/04/norway-halts-seabed-mining-putting-more-pressure-on-nz-to-do-same/" aria-label="Read more about Norway halts seabed mining, putting more pressure on NZ to do same">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2024
By Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi in Apia The Ocean Declaration that will be agreed upon at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week will be known as the Apia Ocean Declaration. In an exclusive interview with the Samoa Observer, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said members were in a unique position to bring their voices ... <a title="Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight back’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/23/apia-ocean-declaration-to-be-crown-jewel-of-chogm-climate-fight-back/" aria-label="Read more about Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight back’">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s domestic carrier Air Calédonie is set to launch a biweekly international connection to neighbouring Vanuatu. The new link is set to start operating from October 3 with two return flights, one on Mondays and the other on Thursdays. The company said this followed a ... <a title="New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/11/new-caledonia-crisis-unrest-hit-air-caledonie-in-search-of-new-markets/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets">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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March 1, 2024
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) of members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is being held in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Adam Wolfenden, who is there on behalf of Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG), says the concerns of small Pacific nations centre on the subsidy ... <a title="Pacific nations and civil society raise concerns at WTO conference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/01/pacific-nations-and-civil-society-raise-concerns-at-wto-conference/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific nations and civil society raise concerns at WTO conference">Read more</a>
