Marine and Coastal
Australia's largest wilderness Australia's marine waters cover double the area of our land. The seascape below the surface is more varied and dramatic than our terrestrial landscapes; canyons, undersea mountains, plateaus and trenches, home to an incredible variety of life. Sadly, overfishing, oil and gas drilling, mining and pollution are destroying marine habitats, leaving them impoverished and on the verge of collapse. Some species have already disappeared. Climate change will make matters worse because it will turn seawater warmer and more acidic and change ocean currents - a key foundation of life in the marine environment.
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Australia’s marine waters extend over an area almost twice as large as the area of our land. It is also filled with amazing plant and animal life. Sadly, overfishing, oil and gas drilling, mining and pollution are destroying marine habitats, leaving them impoverished and on the verge of collapse.
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Global warming threatens to have profound impacts on each of our lives, and an even greater effect on the millions of plants and animals that we share this planet with. Many species of marine life are particularly vulnerable to changes in water temperature, including Australia's diverse and treasured coral reefs.
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Help out with our campaigns in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia to protect Australia's magnificent marine environment.
more »Marine & Coastal Updates
- Spot a Groper Competition - Winners Announced - November 11, 2008
- South Australia’s west coast - a truly remarkable place. - November 09, 2008
- The future of The Kimberley is being decided right now - October 22, 2008
Spot a Groper was a fun promotional competition being held in the Fremantle area between July and September - to highlight the need for increased protection of our marine environment. Congratulations to our prize winners, your prizes are being posted out to you! Thank you to everyone who entered the competition.
Rugged and windswept, SA's west coast contains many spectacular offshore island groups. The giant granite ‘island mountains’ of the Investigator Group rise over 200 metres out of the water.
WA’s unique Kimberley region is now the focus of major state, national and international conservation concern and action. The planned development of the Browse Basin gas field threatens to open the floodgates to other large-scale developments. These development plans could wreak havoc in one of the last large unspoiled marine and coastal environments on earth.
Marine & Coastal Media Releases
- WA Premier Barnett disregards process and environment in pre-empting LNG decision - October 15, 2008
- Crisis in WA rock lobster fishery highlights need for marine sanctuaries - September 26, 2008
- Colourful whale action for Kimberley protection - August 28, 2008
Yesterday’s announcement of a preferred site for an LNG processing hub in the Kimberley shows a fundamental disregard for due process, Indigenous rights and the environment from new WA Premier Colin Barnett.
The Western Rock Lobster fishery crisis highlights the urgent need for a science-based network of marine sanctuaries in WA, according to WA’s leading marine advocacy organisations.
Conservation groups and the Kimberley Marine Tourism Association delivered letters and thousands of signed postcards to WA politicians Colin Barnett and Alan Carpenter calling for the protection of the Kimberley’s unique natural values including its coral reefs and islands from unchecked industrialisation.
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