Protecting Papatūānuku
Renee Taylor, Salt Aotearoa
A speech language therapist by day, Renee’s passion is the ocean. The 32-year-old’s organisation, Salt Aotearoa (formerly Salt Sisters), promotes sustainable kaimoana gathering and encourages connection to the moana through the mauri of wāhine – the essence of women.
What do you do at Salt Aotearoa?
Salt Aotearoa is the ever-evolving product of about three years of mahi bringing a community of water wāhine together here in Aotearoa. This kaupapa has taken so many turns and developed so much since it launched, with business partners coming and going and ideas building and growing. Through freediving, spearfishing, and kaimoana wānanga [education], I hope to inspire other water wāhine and tāne who might be feeling disconnected to explore their whakapapa, their indigeneity and identity, and their connection to our taiao (natural world). Be the huntress you want to be, provide food for your whānau in a sustainable and ethical way, and explore your identity through
