NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub - 2015 Final Report

The need: Management of Commonwealth marine reserves and the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area

Commonwealth marine reserves are areas established under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 (EPBC Act) to help conserv...

Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) network covers 2.76 million km2 of continental shelf, slope, and abyssal habitat. The she...

IMAGE: A seastar among deepwater corals at 1115m water depth in the Huon CMR, part of the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network. I...

The Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) east of Tasmania’s Cape Barren Island stretches some 600 kilometres and covers an area of...

The Tasman Fracture Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) is the southernmost CMR of the continental Australian CMR network. It has been establi...

The Geographe Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) lies within and adjacent to Geographe Bay south of Perth, Western Australia, and has a dep...

Parts of the Freycinet Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) east of Tasmania were opportunistically mapped by the Marine Biodiversity Hub durin...

Australia’a Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) covers an area of 989,842 km2 and is one of the largest marine protected areas i...