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TOHORā REFUGE

An isolated refuge

Southern right whale – tohorā found refuge in the Auckland Islands Maungahuka while around mainland Aotearoa New Zealand whaling wiped them out. Today, the Port Ross region is still the only nursery area for tohorā in Aotearoa New Zealand waters, and they thrive in this uninhabited archipelago, far from people.

Internationally recognised as important

The Auckland Islands Maungahuka is a World Heritage Site due to its amazing, and often endemic, flora and fauna. Tohorā and New Zealand sealions that breed here are protected by a Marine Mammal Sanctuary, and together with Campbell Island Motu Ihupuku, the subantarctic islands are an internationally recognised IUCN Important Marine Mammal Area (IMMA).

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This work was funded by the Te Apārangi Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Live Ocean, Lou and Iris Fisher Charitable Trust, Joyce Fisher Charitable Trust, University of Auckland Science Faculty Research Development Fund, Brian Sheth/Sangreal Foundation, International Whaling Commission – Southern Ocean Research Partnership, New Zealand Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai, Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, and the Cawthron Institute. It was supported by the Australian Antarctic Division, British Antarctic Survey, Antarctic New Zealand, Strannik Ocean Voyages, Spindrift Images and the Bluff Yacht Club.

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