Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Christine Rose: Maui and Hector's Dolphin Defenders spokesperson on the SailGP moving from Lyttleton Harbour

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Christine Rose: Maui and Hector's Dolphin Defenders spokesperson on the SailGP moving from Lyttleton Harbour · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Christ which loses sale GP it's gone, threats made good.
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  Speaker 1: The league has withdrawn the hosting agreement. We hope it's
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  Speaker 1: still in the country and the theory is it's probably
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  Speaker 1: Auckland if they stay. But the Hector's Dolphin advocates they
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  Speaker 1: celebrated yesterday. Of course, Christine rose from the Mali and
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  Speaker 1: Hector's Dolphin defenders New Zealanders with us. Christine, good morning,
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  Speaker 1: good morning. Do you see it as a win.
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  Speaker 2: It is a win for the Dolphins because Littleton Harbor's
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  Speaker 2: Hector's Dolphin habitat so no place for a high speed
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  Speaker 2: boat race, and this decision rightly reflects.
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  Speaker 1: That should it have ever got to the point of
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  Speaker 1: staging something there, if what you say is correct, and
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  Speaker 1: we should never have been there in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: It should never have been there. You know, Russell Coots
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  Speaker 2: signed up to the regulations that were designed to protect
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  Speaker 2: hectors because that is their home, and then of course
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  Speaker 2: had to stop the race because the Hectors were in
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  Speaker 2: their home and then complained about it. So it would
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  Speaker 2: have been fairer to ticket holders, to the other organizers
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  Speaker 2: and supporters, and to the Dolphin and to the people
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  Speaker 2: of New Zealand. To not have the race, not even
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  Speaker 2: to plan to have the race there, And they should
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  Speaker 2: really have put marine mammals Hector's dolphins at the center
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  Speaker 2: of decision making to start with, and that would have
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  Speaker 2: indicated that that was not the right place to have
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  Speaker 2: the race.
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  Speaker 1: So when you say the center, that's like, if there's
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  Speaker 1: a Hector's dolphin in an area there is nothing doing
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  Speaker 1: like that, you have no room for negotiation on that.
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  Speaker 1: It just shouldn't be their full stop.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there are rules that apply to you and I
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  Speaker 2: using boats in Hector's dolphin habitat, and so those rules
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  Speaker 2: have to apply to everybody else, especially where the scale
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  Speaker 2: of impacts are greater, which they were with sale GP
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, you know, these dolphins are only found
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  Speaker 2: in New Zealand, they're really rare, and they're already being
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  Speaker 2: wiped out by the fishing industry, which has killed fifteen
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  Speaker 2: Hector's dolphins since November. So add to that these high
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  Speaker 2: impact boat races and it's just not appropriate. New Zealand's
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  Speaker 2: got some really wonderful opportunities to host this race. It
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  Speaker 2: would be really exciting somewhere else, but marine mammals aren't
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  Speaker 2: where marine mammals aren't at risk and so let's all
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  Speaker 2: get behind that. You know, I certainly would be good on.
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  Speaker 1: You, Christine. Nice to talk to you, Christine Rose Moowey
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  Speaker 1: and Hector's Dolphin Defenders New Zealand Mind.
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