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Taking Back Our Beach

Documentary, Local, Sustainability • 1 Season
Revealing, Thought-Provoking

When disaster strikes, a community rises. In the face of New Zealand's largest oil spill, caused by the 2011 grounding of the MV Rena, Bay of Plenty locals pulled together to save their treasured coast.

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