News and Media
A huge THANK YOU for your incredible show of support for sanctuaries over the last few weeks! More than 50,000 Australians have made a submission asking the Turnbull Government to reject devastating cutbacks proposed for our marine sanctuaries – in precious icons such as the Coral Sea, Lord Howe, Perth Canyon, Bremer Bay and the […]
A group of scientists is urging the government NOT to wind back the scale of the nation’s 40 marine reserves. An advisory panel is recommending the removal of an area almost twice the size of Tasmania from the protected zones – where mining and fishing are banned. But the scientists known as the Ocean Science […]
Exclusive: Analysis of government review shows destructive fishing practices would rise and very few fishers would benefit Proposals to allow increased fishing in Australian waters would generate minuscule economic benefits to only a handful of licence holders, according to a new analysis. The Ocean Science Council of Australia, an independent group of researchers, has criticised […]
Ocean health relies on a strong backbone of protection and management. Marine reserves can be part of the solution, but only if they’re constructed in the right way. Recent recommendations on Australia’s marine reserves would leave more ocean unprotected. Marine reserves are a mix of multiple-use zones that allow activities such as mining and fishing, […]
An independent review’s recommendation to reconfigure the Geographe Commonwealth Marine Reserve and prohibit oil and gas mining has been welcomed by South West groups and businesses. The Federal Government’s independent Commonwealth Marine Reserves Review was released by Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg last month and made a raft of recommendations supporting the national marine park network’s […]
Finally, the Abbott-era Review into our suspended National Network of Sanctuaries has been released. And it’s worse than we thought. Massive sanctuary cutbacks are proposed in crucial hotspots around Australia, including the globally important Coral Sea – the cradle to the Great Barrier Reef and one of the last places on Earth where ocean giants […]
A biodiversity hotspot for large marine animals off Western Australia’s southern coast should be protected from mining, an independent review has found. Bremer Bay canyon is a hotspot for animals such as killer whales, sharks, sperm whales, dolphins and giant squid, thought to be drawn to the area by a nutrient-rich hydrocarbons or deep water […]
In the late 1990s, Liberal Prime Minister John Howard kick-started the process to create a network of expanded Commonwealth marine reserves. Over a decade later, Federal Labor announced 40 new reserves. It was the world’s largest network of marine national parks, with the jewel in the crown being protection for most of the Coral Sea […]
Australia’s marine environment – already beset by coral bleaching and kelp forest dieback – could face further pressures if the federal government acts on recommendations to wind back protection, green groups say. The results of two lengthy panels set up by the Abbott government to review huge new marine reserves set up by then prime […]
The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) has slammed recommendations from a Federal Government-commissioned review to reduce marine park protection in the Coral Sea. In 2013, the Abbott government stopped plans for a new national network of marine parks, pending a review. The report, handed down yesterday, shows the protected area for the Coral Sea will […]
Subscribe to receive the latest news and campaign alerts from Save Our Marine Life.
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which our offices stand and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.