Our Backyard Summer 2014 Summer 2014 | Page 7

MR STUPID AND THE LAST 55 MAUI’S DOLPHINS After a spectacularly stupid public comment from Simon Bridges, New Zealand Minister for Energy, and Resources (following a spectacularly stupid decision to allow oil exploration within the critically endangered Maui’s dolphins habitat), 400 protestors turned up at his house to show their disapproval. The protest was attended by Pete and organised by Tamati Coffey, former television host and presenter turned politician. And the stupid comment…”I think primarily once you go from exploration right through to production, you're not jeopardising the wildlife”. Nuff said! Islands as well as people like Ady Gil and Ric and Helen O’Barry. Not long after Russia invaded the Ukraine, another invasion force arrived on the Faroe Islands, 200 miles off the coast of Scotland, with uniforms, fleets of boa