Nic Bax:
The overall objective for the NERP Marine Biodiversity Hub was to ‘provide scientific information and advice that will support (the Department of ...
Understanding the pressures on the marine environment and their change over time is an important part of developing and prioritising management actions.
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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...
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 ...
Photographs and video provide a safe, non-destructive and efficient way to examine and monitor marine habitats, and are particularly useful in areas protected...
IMAGE: Key Ecological Features represent areas of significant biodiversity or ecological functioning and integrity within Commonwealth waters.
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