Extreme weather is pushing back against Hauraki Gulf restoration projects

Extreme weather is pushing back against Hauraki Gulf restoration projects
Reseeding the Hauraki Gulf with mussels aims to help clean and filter the water (Image: Revive Our Gulf)
Greg Hurrell
Climate change and the recent storms are pushing back efforts to restore the Hauraki Gulf’s marine environment, already facing pressure from a rapidly growing population and intensive farming.Ian Short is a former Lehman Brothers banker who chairs the Auckland Foundation charity. He said the long-term effects of climate change on the gulf would be more frequent and intense storms, acidification and falling oxygen levels. That would lead to reduced biodiversity in the gulf, already much degraded in the past century. In 2021, the...

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