Greetings,

As a lover of all things pelagic, and especially seabirds and cetaceans, it brings me great joy to read on BirdLife International’s website the inception of the Taputeranga Marine Reserve in New Zealand. The official opening for the reserve will be next month (September 7th), and will help protect hundreds of Wellington’s south coast ocean species. The formation of this reserve has been 17 years in the making since the idea was first proposed by Forest and Bird (BirdLife in New Zealand). It was about time!

To read more on this breaking news, please follow the link here.

Seabirds Forever,
~Chad