Pressures on the marine environment are steadily increasing with new uses including renewable energy and new pressures including warming and more acidic seas....
On land, biodiversity offsets are an established instrument for reconciling economic development with biodiversity conservation. In the marine environment, ho...
IMAGE: Some tourism-based industries, such as dive and day boat trips in the Great Barrier Reef, pay a bond to operate in environmentally sensitive areas. Ima...
The Scalloped Hammerhead Shark, Sphyrna lewini. Image: CSIRO
Many species of sharks and rays are slow-growing, long-lived, and have low rates of reproduct...
Seabed features such as canyons, seamounts, banks
and shoals provide aggregation points for ocean (pelagic) predators such as tunas and mackerels.
Predictio...
Many animals and plants live attached to the seabed where they form benthic habitats used by a diversity of other species.
These habitats can be affected by ...
Carbonate banks and terraces of the Van Diemen Rise and the Sahul Shelf, and pinnacles of the Bonaparte Basin (North and North-west marine regions) are Key Ec...
The carbonate banks, terraces and pinnacles of the study area experience frequent disturbance from tropical cyclones and tidal currents driven by some of A...
IMAGE: Key Ecological Features represent areas of significant biodiversity or ecological functioning and integrity within Commonwealth waters.
Austral...
