Commonwealth marine reserves are areas established under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 (EPBC Act) to help conserve Australia’s spec...
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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IMAGE: Acoustic and satellite tagging were used to trace White Shark movement patterns, identify habitats, examine growth rates and explore population stru...
Australia’s Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) network covers 2.76 million km2 of continental shelf, slope, and abyssal habitat.
The shelf provides a mosaic...
IMAGE: A seastar among deepwater corals at 1115m water depth in the Huon CMR, part of the South-east Commonwealth Marine Reserves Network. Image: CSIRO.
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The Flinders Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) east of Tasmania’s Cape Barren Island stretches some 600 kilometres and covers an area of 27,000 km2.
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The Geographe Commonwealth Marine Reserve (CMR) lies within and adjacent to Geographe Bay south of Perth, Western Australia, and has a depth range of 15–70 ...
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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Existing information, methods and capabilities were harnessed in this research theme to develop a blueprint for a sustained national monitoring strategy targe...