Celebrating the graduation of our 2024-2025 interns and hearing all about their experience with MTSCT.

We had a wonderful day at Otamure Bay on Monday for our Whananaki Community Snorkel Day. By the end of the day 142 participants got to...

31 students from 27 schools across Aotearoa joined the 24th annual EMR Poor Knights snorkel trip on 23 May 2025. Hosted by Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust with support from The Bobby Stafford-Bush Foundation and Dive! Tutukaka, the adventure celebrated marine action, art, and kaitiakitanga in one of NZ’s oldest marine reserves. Te Rau Karora Raharaha received the Darren Shields | Wettie Prize for freediving potential.

Netherton School’s journey from the Mountains to the Sea. Delivery has restarted in the Coromandel

As a Māori rangatahi growing up in Hawkes Bay, like so many others, I had problems learning at school. This fuelled my passion..."

Rangatahi are inspired to protect and restore our shared life-sustaining ecosystems for future generations.

Snorkelling, rockpooling and bush walks in Matheson Bay | Te Kohuroa The great outdoors is exciting. And when it comes to being on and in...

New Zealand is a permanent home for two seal/sea lion species: the New Zealand fur seal (kekeno) and New Zealand sea lion (pakake). In...

New Zealand has roughly 15,000km of coastline. That’s a lot of places to play and explore over summer - both from the beach, and on the...

Read about our Campbells Bay Snorkel Day and see what we discovered.

A Trans-Tasman exchange between the Experiencing Marine Reserves and Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries programmes.

It was a huge loss to hear of the passing of Brian Stafford-Bush from the The Bobby Stafford-Bush Foundation in 2023.