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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Speaker 1: The league has withdrawn the hosting agreement.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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