Environment

Does the new Dolphin protection plan go far enough?

22:39 pm on 29 June 2020

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Last week the Government announced a new roadmap for protecting dolphins native Māui and Hector's dolphins in New Zealand waters. 

But some marine mammal scientists are worried it doesn't go far enough to provide consistent protection. 

Professor Liz Slooten is a zoologist at the University of Otago and joins me now. 

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