Conservation is like fixing the mistakes
of our parents with the ignorance of ourselves.
Conservation is all about changing human
behaviour.
| PRESS RELEASE 16 Nov
2005: Local Government forces Marine Education Centre to close
The world-acclaimed SEAFRIENDS Marine Conservation and Education Centre in Leigh, New Zealand, is forced to close because subdivision is disallowed by the Rodney District Council. Read more . . Seafriends for sale. June 2006: With deep sadness we are offering the Seafriends property and business for sale. This document gives you insight in Seafriends as a marine conservation and education centre, and the 10ha estate on which it is based. Read more . . |
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| visit
Goat Island |
Visit Goat Island and swim with the friendly fishes. Find out where we are and how to get there, where to hire snorkel gear, what to expect and what it costs, but first check today's sea conditions. Visit the Seafriends aquariums and information centre and learn more about the sea and its predicament. | |
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navigating
this site
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Navigate this large web site with our sitemap which is uptodate and complete and also shows planned additions. Read tips, particularly when you are a 'newbie' on the Web, and our big picture overview to quickly match your interest. Read tips for searching to find quickly what you are looking for. The autorun page is where owners of the Seafriends CD begin their discoveries, with slide shows. | |
| Recent changes to this site, press releases and news articles. Discover in the new pages which major chapters have recently been added (45 pages, growing) | ||
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the Seafriends CD for your family, friends and school and pay safely
through PayPal. The CD contains the whole web site but is free from pesky
advertising, provides fast access and is entirely safe. It also contains
slide
shows with more than 2000 underwater images of New Zealand and Niue.
Your order helps us to survive and expand. |
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| Learn more about us: the Seafriends organisation, introduction, structure, plans, achievements and more. Come diving or snorkelling in the Goat Island marine reserve. (45 pages, complete) | ||
| in depth |  A
series of interesting articles about our coasts and seas and global items
of interest. Excellent material for schools. Parchment worms, bather's
rash, jellyfish, sea hares, storms, cyclones, marine reserves and more
(growing) |
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| oceanography | About atmosphere, climate, waves, currents, tides, beaches, sediment transport, storms, tsunamis, climate and weather. The natural forces that affect our seas, coasts and lives. The very basis for understanding how our planet works - Clockwork Earth. Also why our beaches are disappearing, and mining the sea sand. (180 pages, complete) | |
| soil | Soil is the most important environment on Earth on which human life depends but we are losing it mainly because we do not understand how it works and what it needs. Read about geology, soil formation, soils of the world, sustainability, management, erosion, erosion control, roadside management, and much more. (155 pages, complete) | |
| marine
environment |
Learn about our extensive marine environment, its habitats and creatures. Here you'll find the classification and descriptions of sea mammals, fishes, crustaceans, echinoderms, molluscs, other lower animals, seaweeds, habitats, rocky shore, plankton and more. (growing) | |
| Ocean acidification: how does it work and how serious is it? Do we need to worry? What do we know? Is it a threat or a scam and swindle? An independent analysis and amazing reading. | ||
| conservation
issues |
Know the threats to our marine environment and how we can do something about them. The A to Z of conservation, resource management, biodiversity, marine conservation, environmental law. Why our beaches are disappearing, degradation, fishing, whaling, pollution and more. The war for marine reserves. Myths and fallacies in the marine reserves debate - unbelievable. (growing) | |
| The New Zealand Government is waging a war against its own people for more marine reserves that cannot deliver. The whole marine reserves debate is fraught with myths and fallacies. Read the many marine reserve proposals and their dishonesty. Read about flawed marine research and monitoring results that prove the point. Learn quickly about the fallacies in marine conservation by reading Frequently Asked Questions. | ||
| marine reserves | Information about all NZ marine reserves. Extensive details regarding history, geography, ecology, habitats, dive spots and inhabitants of: Kermadecs, Poor Knights, Goat Island, and more.(growing). | |
| decay
&
degradation |
The seas everywhere are degrading for reasons we have just begun to understand. Learn the principles of degradation, the plankton balance and how to recognise marine degradation, with many photographic examples from New Zealand. | |
| DDA | The Dark Decay Assay is a new but simple and cheap plankton tool to measure the plankton balance and essentially the health of aquatic ecosystems. This discovery by Dr Floor Anthoni uncovered a number of important ecological laws and principles that have so far been overlooked. Important and challenging reading but not mainstream science yet. Read the dda for dummies chapter that makes it sound easy. (large section, 100 pages and growing) | |
| Niue Island | An extensive section about Niue Island, north-east of NZ: geography, geology, history, ecology, future and much more (116 pages) and thumbnail images with narrative (44 pages, 8.5MB) | |
| underwater
photography |
Theory and practice of advanced underwater photography, complete with photographic examples. Skills required. What film and lens to use. How light changes as it enters the water and travels through it. Theory and practice of mixed light photography and how to use colour correction filters. What to demand of a serious underwater camera, and how to improve your chances and video footage. Revolutionary digital darkroom techniques and much more. (123 pages, nearly complete) | |
| photo stock library |  The
photo library is a stock library from which you can buy high resolution
photos and affordable A3 posters.
See how it works, what we offer and what
quality you can expect. View the many glorious images of New Zealand seas.
Order
images here. Assorted imagesslide
shows. |
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| schools |  Schools
please note that this site is orientated towards schools. It is full of
resources, photos, diagrams, ideas, lectures, references. Find here possible
links with the school curriculum. Discover our exciting school programmes
where everyone goes into the sea, does a rocky shore study and listens
to riveting lectures. Find out what else we do for schools and how you
could help. (25 pages) |
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| links
and
site search |
More information about organisations in NZ and overseas. Search this site, search New Zealand and search the world. Use our site map as an alternative method to find your way in the maze of this web. It gives a more detailed overview of which sections have been completed, and which have been planned. (40 pages, complete) | |
| books
and
references |
Books and references we think are worth studying. The Seafriends library from which you can hire, and a list of available Seafriends publications. Important and useful glossaries, tables, classifications, and more. (160 pages, complete) | |
| opinions | What people say about this web site, scientists' ill-conceived attacks, and Bjørn Lomborg's defence against such attacks. (56 pages) | |
| sponsors
and
copyrights |
Meet the sponsors of this web site and learn what you can and can't do with the information obtained from this site. Read what people say about this web site and of our school programmes. (3 pages) | |
 Make
a difference for the future of our children and support our fight for healthy
seas. Support the effort that really matters: providing reliable and complete
information for making decisions and for understanding our place under
the sun and how to keep it sustainable and healthy. We accept any donation
paid by credit card through PayPal, or by cheque. For bequests to the Seafriends
Foundation, our lawyers will contact you. |
| Where on Earth can you find a well-researched informative environmental web site untainted by government policies, United Nations conventions, beliefs, fads, religion, political correctness, green extremism, big business propaganda, middles-class morality and majority rule? If you value democracy, truth and common sense, support Seafriends in a tangible way because it is unique. |
This web site is about 60% complete , with over 3200 printed pages and 7100 files.
e-mail for comments. Our Linux/Xandros corner documents the move from Windows to Linux.
Did you know that in 2006 this web site fed over 130 Gigabytes of information to more than 1.5 million distinct visitors? Most of these live in the USA.
Your donation today can make a big change tomorrow. Donate generously to save our seas. Seafriends Marine Conservation and Education Centre. 7 Goat Island Rd. Leigh R.D.5. New Zealand
Phone +64 9422 6212. Fax +64 9422 6245.
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