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Greenpeace activists boarded state-owned research vessel to protest the country’s role in facilitating Glomar Mineral
Greenpeace activists boarded the 'Tangaroa', that was returning from an exploration mission in the Pacific on behalf of a U.S. company, on Sep 26, 2026, to protest the country’s role in facilitating U.S. company Glomar Minerals’ plans to start deep-sea mining in the Pacific Ocean. The ship had just returned to Wellington after completing exploration work for Glomar. An activist dressed like U.S. President Donald Trump flew an American flag from the vessel while another held a banner reading “Don’t Mine the Moana.” The activists occupied the vessel for about seven hours before they were removed by the police. Greenpeace highlighted that its activists boarded the vessel following her return from the Clarion- Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the international waters of the Pacific, where the ship surveyed deep-sea minerals. The research was carried out on behalf of UK Seabed Resources Ltd (UKSR), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Glomar Minerals. According to Glomar Minerals, Tangaroa had departed Tahiti in late July for the CCZ to survey its license area for polymetallic nodules rich in critical minerals. The campaign was the first comprehensive geological and biological survey of the UK2 license area in more than 40 years. UKSR’s license areas cover approximately 133,000 square kilometers of deep seafloor, an area covered in polymetallic nodules containing manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper, and rare earths in a single ore. The 'Tangaroa' returned to Wellington Harbor after a 65-day campaign armed with environmental and resource data that was expected to inform Glomar Minerals’ decision to embark on commercial exploitation as soon as 2027. Deep sea mining has become a highly controversial and divisive issue in New Zealand, with environmentalists and activists asserting that it causes massive damage to ocean ecosystems as well as having adverse economic impacts for coastal communities. President Trump has emerged as the biggest proponent of deep-sea mining. In April 2025, he issued an Executive Order to fast-track commercial deep-sea mining in the U.S. and international waters. Earlier this year, the U.S. government launched Project Vault, an initiative to secure a global supply chain and stockpile a reserve of minerals for military and industrial purposes. Greenpeace contended that the 'Tangaroa' expedition came as the U.S. was preparing to issue unilateral commercial permits for seafloor minerals, a move that bypasses the International Seabed Authority (ISA), where UN member states are negotiating the regulations that will guide deep-sea mining. In 2015, Greenpeace activists occupied the vessel in protest of its use by the international oil industry to survey the waters of Aotearoa for deep-sea oil drilling. Report with photo: https://maritime-executive.com/article/nz-activists-board-research-vessel-in-protests-against-deep-sea-mining
Greenpeace ended protest on Tangaroa
After nearly 10 hours of hanging on in strong winds, three Greenpeace protesters have come down from their perch on the gantry of the "Tangaroa" in the port of Wellinton on Nov 24, 2015. Police were waiting for them on the deck of the ship, which has been chartered by the oil company Chevron to do survey work off the East Coast. One by one, the protesters were led to a police van, after being verbally arrested earlier in the day. Earlier on the day, police climbed the ship's gantry twice in an effort to talk down the three protesters, but were rebuffed each time. One protester was hanging from the gantry structure, one had climbed a mast, and another was attached to a ladder. Greenpeace activists had stormed the research ship, claiming the vessel has been involved in oil exploration. Police had already arrested two other protesters, Genevieve Toop and Niamh O'Flynn, who boarded the ship. Report with photos and video: http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/74342252/police-rebuffed-by-greenpeace-activists-locked-to-niwa-ship
Happy Feet signal lost - beloved penguin gone off the radar
The beloved penquin Happy Feet, who stole the hearts of New Zealanders, has gone off the radar. Ten days after being dropped off from the Niwa research vessel Tangaroa into the ocean, 621km south of New Zealand, 3-year-old Happy Feet has again dived into a world of obscurity. The last signal received from the KiwiSat 202 satellite tracking device, attached to its tail feathers, was just after 8am last Friday. The curator of terrestrial vertebrates at Te Papa, Colin Miskelly, said he "didn't want to speculate - there is a question mark about what has happened". More at http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.nz/news/happy-feet-dives-off-the-radar/1101106/
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