Species that are listed as threatened, and migratory species listed under international agreements are protected as matter of national environmental significa...
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...
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 Australian Government has identified 58 Commonwealth Marine Reserves (CMRs) and 54 Key Ecological Features (KEFs) in Australia’s Commonwealth marine are...
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...
IMAGE: Thicklip Trevally (Carangoides orthogrammus), Solitary Islands. Image: Reef Life Survey.
An important part of establishing monitoring protocols is t...
Approximate locations of key ecological features in commonwealth waters.
IMAGE: The KEF systems indicated here share a range of common indicators.
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