Commonwealth marine areas are protected as a matter of national environmental significance under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act ...
Commonwealth marine reserves are areas established under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 (EPBC Act) to help conserve Australia’s spec...
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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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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...
IMAGE: Thicklip Trevally (Carangoides orthogrammus), Solitary Islands. Image: Reef Life Survey.
An important part of establishing monitoring protocols is t...
