{"id":72212,"date":"2025-06-10T10:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/10\/new-zealand-is-failing-to-protect-its-vast-ocean-resources-we-owe-it-to-the-world-to-act"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:33:25","slug":"new-zealand-is-failing-to-protect-its-vast-ocean-resources-we-owe-it-to-the-world-to-act-helen-clark-and-kayla-kingdon-bebb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72212","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand is failing to protect its vast ocean resources. We owe it to the world to act | Helen Clark and Kayla Kingdon-Bebb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 1% of our country\u2019s seas are highly protected and the damaging practice of bottom-trawling must be restricted<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a remarkable feat that a small, isolated island nation of just five million people has managed to stake a claim to one of the largest ocean territories in the world.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) spans more than 4m square kilometres \u2013 an area 15 times the size of our landmass.<\/p>\n<p>Rt Hon Helen Clark is a former prime minister of New Zealand, and former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kayla Kingdon-Bebb is chief executive of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/10\/new-zealand-is-failing-to-protect-its-vast-ocean-resources-we-owe-it-to-the-world-to-act\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 1% of our country\u2019s seas are highly protected and the damaging practice of bottom-trawling must be restrictedIt\u2019s a remarkable feat that a small, isolated island nation of just five million people has managed to stake a claim to one of the la&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4786,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,56,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-oceans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72213,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72212\/revisions\/72213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}