Labor spruiks marine park protection as Coalition pledges industry 'balance'
Protection of Australia's oceans is shaping up to be a federal election issue for coastal communities as rangers and researchers work to battle illegal fishing, pollution and climate change.
Huge new no-fishing zones give Antarctic marine predators and their prey a break
Thousands of miles off the southeast coast of South America lies a set of remote islands, one broad and comma-shaped, the others a series of small dots that trail off into the South Atlantic Ocean. These are the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, located north of the icy mass of Antarctica. The islands, which […]
"The annual migration of giant Australian cuttlefish to the Cuttlefish Coast is a natural wonder. Giant Australian guttlefish breeding zone added to National Heritage List"
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-25/sa-cuttlefish-on-national-heritage-list/102023608 #NoTakeZones #Cephalopoda
Giant Australian guttlefish breeding zone added to National Heritage List
The site for Australia's largest breeding migration of giant Australian cuttlefish is now on the National Heritage List.
Protected areas have 'little impact' on tuna stocks says study
No-take marine protected areas in the western and central Pacific Ocean appear to offer no benefit to tropical tuna conservation according to a new study published in <i>Frontiers in Marine Science</i>.
#Platypuses Are Dying in traps – Ban Them NOW
For decades #conservationists have been begging the decision makers to stop “set and forget” opera house #nets. The killing continues...
https://secure.peta.org.au/page/81220/petition/1
#monotremes #NoTakeZones #extinction makers
Platypuses Are Dying in These Nets – Ban Them NOW, Queensland!
In Queensland alone, more than 200,000 of these traps are purchased every year.
NSW.Biodiversity
Bob Payne