Commonwealth marine reserves are areas established under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 (EPBC Act) to help conserve Australia’s spec...
Video: Geomorphology - Carnarvon Shelf
Flythrough movie showing the bathymetry of Carnarvon shelf, highlighting benthic habitats at Point Cloates. The ba...
IMAGE: The Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Image: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
Establishing an integrated monitoring framework for the G...
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...
IMAGE: Key Ecological Features represent areas of significant biodiversity or ecological functioning and integrity within Commonwealth waters.
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IMAGE: Acoustic and satellite tagging were used to trace White Shark movement patterns, identify habitats, examine growth rates and explore population stru...
Australia’a Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) covers an area of 989,842 km2 and is one of the largest marine protected areas in the world.
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The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1981 in recognition of its outstanding universal value.
IMAGE: Tourism is one of man...
Image: Location and numbers of reef life survey sites worldwide.
Reef Life Survey (RLS) conducts long-term monitoring of coastal habitats which are ca...
