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Maui63 is working alongside the Ministry for Primary Industries and some of the fishing companies [to ask]: could we use this as something that could monitor an area to look for animals before fishing is being done?” she says. “Or could it fly backwards and forwards while fishing is being undertaken? It’s very exciting.”
Eyes underwater. Eyes in the sky. Decades spent in small boats on cold, choppy seas, and in the lab, scrutinising skin samples and ruined organs. Taken altogether, it’s the sort of science that just might save a species.
Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 183 September / October 2023.
Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-special-case-of-our-smallest-dolphins/
Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.
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THE SPECIAL CASE OF OUR SMALLEST DOLPHINS
Maui63 is working alongside the Ministry for Primary Industries and some of the fishing companies [to ask]: could we use this as something that could monitor an area to look for animals before fishing is being done?” she says. “Or could it fly backwards and forwards while fishing is being undertaken? It’s very exciting.”<br /> Eyes underwater. Eyes in the sky. Decades spent in small boats on cold, choppy seas, and in the lab, scrutinising skin samples and ruined organs. Taken altogether, it’s the sort of science that just might save a species.<br /> Shot on assignment for New Zealand Geographic Issue: 183 September / October 2023.<br /> Read the Feature: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-special-case-of-our-smallest-dolphins/<br /> Photograph Richard Robinson © 2023.<br /> Rights managed image. No Reproduction without prior written permission.