The Seahorse and the Reef
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- Among the red kelp...
- "If you take it from the sea it will die...the sea gives it life and beauty."
- When I was a boy...
- Pa
- Hey, Rongo! Come on! Good day for kai moana today!
- Don't you kids come too far out!
- "I see the seahorse again...shimmering and luminous with light. And I remember the reef again..."Remembering dad's words: "As long as we respect it, it will continue to feed us."
- One weekend...
- DO NOT take seafood from the reef
- "Something's wrong...is there a shark out there?"
- Relatives from the pa made their way to the reef. Rongo tried to twist his wife's arm to let them forget their chores and follow them to collect pipi.
- Aue...Aue...
- "We have lost our aroha for you and our respect for your life."
- "...much of the fun of going to the reef was because they could be with their friends and relations. It was a good time for being family again and for enjoying our tribal ways."
- Through dead waving seaweed...
- "We have poisoned the land and now we feed our poison into your waters."
- First the land and now our food,...the sea is polluted. If we eat the seafood, we may get sick.
- An old woman began to cry out a tangi to the reef. Everyone bowed their heads...the sea boiled yellow with effluent...the stain curled like fingers around the reef.
- The seahorse searches desperately for "clean and crystal waters."
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