New Zealand's warming seas threaten Māori food sources relied on for generations

Māori tribes record changes to lands and oceans, with some food-gathering practices that have sustained communities for hundreds of years lost Danny Paruru crouches at the water's edge, letting it wash over his hand. Behind him, at the far hill-line, the sharp peaks mark out where the lands of his tribe, Te Whakatōhea, once stretched to before they were forcibly taken by the crown. In front of him the surface of the estuary ripples. "Years ago our kaumatua [elders] were realising that we were ...