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 ...
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...
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: Parrotfish school over typical reef habitat in depths of 10─20m at the Houtman Abrolhos Islands. Image: Reef Life Survey.
A suite of compleme...
