Volunteers work to clean up oil on Mōtītī Island’ from the Rena
Rights: Sustainable Coastlines Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Published 11 January 2012 Size: 170 KB Referencing Hub media

Iwi and volunteers work together to clean up oil from Mōtītī Island’s rocky shores following the Rena grounding on the Astrolabe Reef.

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    Iwi and kaimoana

    Ngā Iwi o Tauranga Moana (a collective group for Māori tribes in Tauranga) were deeply concerned when the Rena grounded on the Astrolabe Reef on 5 October 2011. Like so many, they were concerned ...

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    Restoring mauri after the Rena disaster

    In October 2011, the Greek container ship MV Rena ran aground on Ōtāiti, also known as the Astrolabe Reef, off the coast of Tauranga. The oil spill resulted in the New Zealand’s worst maritime ...

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