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Help protect Māui and Hector's dolphins

  • Extended time frame

      26 November 2024

    Hello Dolphin Defenders,

    We're extending the timeframe of this fundraiser because we still need and appreciate your help.

    Thank you!

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  • Thanks for your support

      19 August 2024
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    You're making a difference! SailGP is gone from Hector's Lyttelton harbour home. ECan has agreed to bring forward its regional coastal plan. Now, we need to get trawl and set nets out of Hector's home too.

    No dolphin should die in a fishing net, like this wee male killed by a trawler on 28 April. A terrible way to die, and a terrible waste. Thanks for your support. For the dolphins.

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  • Thanks for your support, and an update

      29 July 2024
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    Kia ora Dolphin Defenders,

    Thanks for your support. Your help has enabled us to achieve a lot this year already. We’ve just been registered as a Charitable Society, in addition to our Incorporated Society status. And we’ve updated our website.

    Your support also allows us to make big plans for little dolphins, so if you’re interested in being involved in some of the exciting events coming up across the country this year and next, please drop us an email or a message

    We’ve been briefing Opposition MPs about Māui and Hector’s. So far we have met with Labour MPs and Marama Davidson of the Greens. We’re hoping to get an appointment with other Green MPs now that Marama is off ill.

    We’ve been asking the hard questions - with a range of Official Information Act requests to Government departments seeking accountability for the deaths of Māui and Hector’s which have been kept off the Department of Conservation Incident Database, apparently because of delays (obfuscation?) from the Ministry of Primary Industries.

    We’ve been investigating legal opportunities to challenge the Government’s failure to protect Māui and Hector’s from known risks in the fishing industry.

    And we will keep going, because every dolphin life matters.

    Together we are stronger, so thanks for your support.

    Check out our new website https://www.mauihectorsdolphins.org.nz/, and keep following us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

    Thanks again,

    All the best,

    For the dolphins,

    Christine

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