Paul Moss say NO to fish zoo Te Raekaihau Point

Paul Moss say NO to fish zoo Te Raekaihau Point paul moss paulmoss artist artivist artivism whales dolphins fish zoo te raekaihau point

story:Protecting a piece of the environemnt with beautiful photographs.

This video is made from rock pool photographs that i shot at several coastal locations, some at night in winter, in 2006/7 to stop the coastal zone from being ruined by a tourist development project.

It took a huge team of us several years and about $300,ooo with massive donations of professional time to stand up in courts and hearings, and tell the story about how wrong the project was for this location. They said the site was ruined and I set out to prove it wasnt! ( it wasnt).

The development was a restaurant and aquarium ( a fish zoo) and woul dlight up our only site for southern astronomy photography, making it useless to us. We ran many public astronomy events in the dark next to the sea, to share aurora, eclipses, comets, and the exquisitely beautiful stars and milky way.

The environment Court eventually said NO. The developers spent $3Million dollars, mostly taxpayers money, trying to ruin this piece of southern ocean coastline. The location is called Te Raekaihau Point, and it translates in our indigenous language as "The forehead that eats the wind". Our part of our country is the symbolic 'head of the fish'.

The 'Fish' is actually the north island of our country New Zealand, also called Aotearoa, and is named 'Te Ika a Maui' by the ancients. It is the Fish that Maui pulled up on his fishing line eons ago.

The head of our fish is very important to us, and is still dark to this day (night) and is still a place that city dwellers can quickly get to to se the treasures of the night sky. I call those treasures 'dark sky taonga'.

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