11th Hour Racing Announces New Grantees for World Oceans Day
NEWPORT, RI (6 June 2019) - 11th Hour Racing announced today seven grantees focused on restoring ocean health in the United States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand. Funded by The Schmidt Family Foundation, 11th Hour Racing’s grant program is committed to...
Mahina’s plan to protect the waters of Little Barrier Island
BLAKE Inspire delegate Mahina Walle has the privilege of living within the country’s first nature reserve. Now she wants to protect the marine life around it, she tells Suzanne McFadden. She’s just 16, but Mahina Walle has set herself an ambitious environmental goal -...
Harry’s mission to unfreeze Antarctica’s secrets
For all the staggering sights of Antarctica – the vast white wilderness and its unique wildlife; summer days with no end - it is the sounds of the frozen continent that remain with Harry Seagar. It was the commotion of the wind in particular that struck the Blake...
Student Strike 4 Climate Rally
There is no doubt climate change is a significant global concern – and this is particularly so for our young people whose futures face the full extent of a changing climate. On 15 March thousands of school students are expected to take part in the Student Strike 4...
BLAKE Ambassadors help kākāpo in boom breeding year
It’s unlikely that a female kākāpō agonises over her weight. Fortunately, however, there are a group of humans who do that for her. It’s been a bumper breeding season for the critically endangered kākāpō, on the predator-free islands of Whenua Hou/Codfish Island off...
New book perfectly captures our Hero of the Sea
David Hill may not know a luff from a lanyard. And yet he was able to capture the essence of Sir Peter Blake in his picture book for young readers, Hero of the Sea. Hill, an award-winning New Zealand author, did extensive research into the life of the late adventurer...
Introducing NZ-VR: Our new virtual underwater experience
Growing up, James Frankham would spend summers with his family at the bottom end of Waiheke Island. On any given day, he could look up or down the Waiheke Channel and see two or three ‘work-ups’ of kahawai. The work-ups - where baitfish are rounded up into a ball and...
Blake DOC Ambassadors Announced
Five young New Zealanders will be packing their bags and heading into the environment this summer after each winning a Blake DOC Ambassador Award. Through the Sir Peter Blake Trust’s partnership with the Department of Conservation (DOC), the following young people...
Millie’s promise to help Tara protect our oceans
On board Sir Peter Blake’s old expedition boat in the Caribbean Sea, Millie Mannering watched pilot whales dancing around the schooner’s bow, and dipped a net into a massive bloom of phytoplankton stirred up by a devastating hurricane. The 19-year-old swam in azure...
Students to voyage to Chatham Rise on board RV Tangaroa
Two talented young New Zealanders are on their way to the Chatham Rise on board NIWA’s Research Vessel Tangaroa as part of a month-long science voyage, after winning a coveted Blake NIWA Ambassadorship. Victoria University student Siobahn O'Connor (21) and Otago...
Sir Peter’s visionary words shape the Trust’s new strategy
In his final log entry onboard Seamaster, anchored in the mouth of the Amazon, Sir Peter Blake wrote what would become prophetic words. “We want to restart people caring for the environment… through adventure, through participation, through education and through...
Watene’s war on kiore, and crusade for kororā
Watene Campbell has given a piece of his heart to a little critter on Wellington’s shoreline, while waging war on a less-lovable varmint. Campbell, a 17-year-old student at Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ngā Mokopuna in Wellington, makes time in his frenetic schedule for the...