As we head into the holiday season, we want to THANK YOU for your support and everything we’ve achieved together this year for our marine life. 2016 has been an extraordinary year for our oceans. We’ve seen the most extreme and devastating changes, with unprecedented coral bleaching, mangrove dieback and loss of kelp forests around […]

More great news for the Kimberley! Just weeks after the extraordinary Horizontal Falls was protected, the WA Government has today announced the creation of another new marine park in the Kimberley… and it’s a whopper. The new North Kimberley Marine Park extends over 19,000km2 of the most pristine and remote waters of the Kimberley, making […]

Great news! Today the final plan was published for the new Lalang-Garram Horizontal Falls Marine Park, protecting one of the world’s greatest natural wonders: the Kimberley’s Horizontal Falls and its surrounding reefs, mangroves, islands and ocean. Congratulations to the WA Government and the Dambimangari Traditional Owners who will jointly manage the new marine park. And […]

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 […]