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# Earth to Sea News, Issue No. 19
- URL: https://www.earthtoseanews.com/issue-19/
- Published: 2026-09-12T20:55:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-12T20:55:36.000Z
- Description: 149 new deep sea species off Christmas Island, five marine reserves for Otago, a swamp bought twice, poems that plant trees, and the kites over Bondi today.
- Author: Nicole McMahon
- Tags: #newsletter

| Issue No. 19 . 13 September[![Earth to Sea News. Independent good news, from the earth to the sea](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/08/masthead-stacked-issue14.jpg)](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/)[](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/) ![A deep sea camera vehicle over corals on a seamount](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/09/sun13-sea10.jpg)Sunday starts in the deep sea and ends in the sky. Off Christmas Island, two voyages have brought home 149 animals never seen before. Otago has five new marine reserves with Kāi Tahu rangers keeping them, two hundred people in western Victoria bought a swamp twice and a lost flower came back, and children across the country are earning trees with poems. There are four things for spring, all made here, stale bread becoming palm oil in Liverpool, thyme and clove standing in for copper in French vineyards, and at Bondi this morning, fifty thousand faces turned up to watch the kites.![A deep sea camera vehicle over corals on a seamount](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/09/sun13-sea10.jpg)CONSERVATIONOff Christmas Island, the deep sea just gave up 149 new speciesTwo voyages to the seamounts around Christmas Island and the Cocos Keeling Islands brought home more than a thousand kinds of animal, and 149 of them had never been seen by science. Tripod fish, a batfish shaped like a dumpling, and a graveyard of megalodon teeth five kilometres down.[READ THE FULL STORY →](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/christmas-island-seamounts/)More good news![Sandfly Bay at sunset, Otago Peninsula](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/09/sun13-otago3.jpg)GLOBAL GOOD NEWS[Otago's coast gets five marine reserves, and Kāi Tahu rangers to keep them](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/otago-marine-reserves/)On 1 July, five new marine reserves came into force along the coast south of Dunedin, three hundred and eight square kilometres of sea where nothing is taken, and Kāi Tahu rangers now share the keeping of them.[READ →](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/otago-marine-reserves/)![Kangaroo paw in flower](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/09/sun13-spr1.jpg)SUSTAINABLE LIVING[Four things for spring, all made here from what the country already has](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/spring-four-things/)A trowel made from bottle caps, a nursery of the native plants our birds and insects depend on, a pantry of native flavours, and furniture that comes back to be made again.[READ →](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/spring-four-things/)![Hands planting seedlings in garden soil](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/09/sun13-poe4.jpg)COMMUNITY[Write a poem about Country, and a tree goes in the ground for it](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/poem-forest/)POEM FOREST plants a native tree in Wollongong for every nature poem a student or teacher sends in. More than 22,800 are already growing, and this year's round closes on 25 September.[READ →](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/poem-forest/)![Two brolgas walking beside a wetland in Victoria](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/09/wirey-swamp-cover.jpg)MONEY FLOWS[Two hundred people bought a swamp, twice](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/wirey-swamp/)In the far west of Victoria, a small trust asked its supporters to help buy a drained wetland and bring the water back. They did it in 2025, then did it again this winter, and a flower thought lost from the district turned up in the reeds.[READ →](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/wirey-swamp/)![Surplus bread from an industrial bakery](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/09/sun13-cfg1.jpg)INNOVATIONS[In Liverpool, stale bread is being turned into the oil that replaces palm](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/clean-food-group/)A yeast first found on grape skins eats surplus loaves and fills itself with fat. A company born in a Bath laboratory is brewing it by the hundred thousand litres near Liverpool, and the oil behaves just like palm oil.[READ →](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/clean-food-group/)![Champagne vineyards at Hautvillers](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/09/sun13-ede2.jpg)INNOVATIONS[Thyme, rose and clove: the spray taking copper's place in French vineyards](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/eden-research-vineyards/)France has stopped selling most copper fungicides, the standby of organic vineyards for a century. Into the gap steps a spray from Oxfordshire made of three plant oils, wrapped in yeast cells so the rain sets them free.[READ →](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/eden-research-vineyards/)![Shark and rainbow kites over Bondi Beach at the Festival of the Winds](https://storage.ghost.io/c/0d/06/0d067be9-327f-4730-b9c3-5f0cdd2bc6fa/content/images/2026/09/festival-of-the-winds.jpg)TODAY AT BONDI[Sharks, whales and teddy bears over the surf: Festival of the Winds is today](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/festival-of-the-winds/)Festival of the Winds has turned Bondi Beach into a moving painting every September since 1978\. It runs today from 10:30am to 4pm, it is free, and the best way in is the train and a walk down the hill.[READ →](https://www.earthtoseanews.com/festival-of-the-winds/)Enjoyed this issue?Good news travels when people pass it on. 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