Pressures and impacts

Map of Australia showing pressure areas.

Understanding pressures on the marine environment and mapping resources

One hundred and twenty-six different layers of pressure data, with associated metadata records, have been collated and mapped for the Commonwealth Marine Reserve network. They include national summaries of the status of oil and gas extraction and infrastructure, seismic surveys, shipping movemen...

Director’s overview

Nic Bax: The overall objective for the NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub was to ‘provide scientific information and advice that will support...

Map of Australia showing change in seismic surveys.

Collating existing pressure data for the Commonwealth marine area

Understanding the pressures on the marine environment and their change over time is an important part of developing and prioritising manag...

Diagrams showing trawled regions over a period of 20 years.

Assessing relative and cumulative impact on the marine environment

Pressures on the marine environment are steadily increasing with new uses including renewable energy and new pressures including warming a...

Biodiversity offsets in the marine environment

On land, biodiversity offsets are an established instrument for reconciling economic development with biodiversity conservation. In the ma...

People of boat and a swimmer underwater.

Potential for incentive-based management for marine conservation

IMAGE: Some tourism-based industries, such as dive and day boat trips in the Great Barrier Reef, pay a bond to operate in environmentally ...

Landscape approaches for managing sharks and rays

The Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Sphyrna lewini. Image: CSIRO Many species of sharks and rays are slow-growing, long-lived, and have lo...

Predicting benthic impacts and recovery to support biodiversity management in the South-east Marine Region

Many animals and plants live attached to the seabed where they form benthic habitats used by a diversity of other species. These habitats...

Section of CATAMI classification poster.

Putting names to a sea of faces

Photographs and video provide a safe, non-destructive and efficient way to examine and monitor marine habitats, and are particularly usefu...

Marine monitoring blueprint: meeting a monumental challenge

IMAGE: Key Ecological Features represent areas of significant biodiversity or ecological functioning and integrity within Commonwealth ...