Reports

• Systematic Conservation Planning: A Network of Marine Sanctuaries

  • Nov 11, 2010, 15:05 EST
  • Outback Australia, Outback Australia - South West Marine

  The Ecology Centre of The University of Queensland has conducted an independent analysis of marine sanctuaries for the Commonwealth‘s South West Marine Region.More

   

Other Resources

• Developing Australia's National System of Marine Reserves

  • Aug 05, 2011, 11:45 EST
  • Outback Australia - South West Marine, Pew Marine Fellows

  On 5th May 2011 the Australian Government released a draft proposal for a network of marine reserves in the Commonwealth waters of the South West bioregional marine planning region.More

   

• Video: Professor Hugh Possingham on Australia's South West Marine Park Proposal

  • Jul 25, 2011, 13:55 EST
  • Outback Australia - South West Marine

  Shortly after the public release of the Australian Government’s South West proposed marine parks, the highly respected Professor Hugh Possingham FAA, Director of the ARC Centre for Excellence for Environmental Decisions at the University of Queensland, provided his analysis of the proposed parks and the science behind them.More

   

• Map: Proposed South West Marine Sanctuaries

  • Jun 13, 2011, 14:55 EST
  • Outback Australia - South West Marine

  This map illustrates proposed marine sanctuaries off Australia's South West regional coast and shows that only two of the South West's 10 critical hot spots for marine life are proposed for protection.More

   

• Promising Year for Australia's Oceans

  • May 05, 2011, 11:15 EST
  • Outback Australia, Outback Australia - South West Marine

  Australia has the third largest marine area of any nation in the world, ranging from coral-rich tropical seas to the sub-Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean. This year, Australia is poised to become the first country in the world to create a national system of marine sanctuaries to protect its oceans. The government's ambitious plan will focus on five regions around the country's coastline.More

   

• Thinking Big to Protect Australia's Outback

  • Feb 15, 2011, 13:50 EST
  • Outback Australia, Outback Australia – Cape York Peninsula, Outback Australia - Channel Country, Outback Australia - Great Western Woodlands, Australia - Fish River, Outback Australia - Kimberley, Outback Australia - South West Marine, Outback Australia - West Arnhem Land

  Like the Amazon rain forest and Canada’s boreal forest, the Australian outback is one of the great natural places remaining on the planet. Stretching across central and northern Australia, the region consists of forests, woodlands and grasslands in which a wide array of indigenous plants and animals can be found. In fact, Australia leads all countries in the number of native mammal and reptile species.More

   

• Meet the Experts: Barry Traill, Director, Wild Australia Program

  • Feb 08, 2011, 16:23 EST
  • Outback Australia, Outback Australia – Cape York Peninsula, Outback Australia - Channel Country, Outback Australia - Great Western Woodlands, Australia - Fish River, Outback Australia - Kimberley, Outback Australia - South West Marine, Outback Australia - West Arnhem Land

  Barry Traill joined the Pew Environment Group in 2007 as director of the Wild Australia Program, a joint program of Pew and the Nature Conservancy. He works with partner organizations to obtain protection for large wilderness areas in Australia on land and sea.More

   

• Marine Bioregional Planning in the South West Marine Region

  • May 28, 2009, 14:30 EST
  • Outback Australia, Outback Australia - South West Marine

  The Marine Bioregional Planning Program started in 2006, aims to develop Marine Bioregional Plans under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (the Act) and establish regional networks of Commonwealth Marine Reserves, contributing to the National Representative System of Marine Protected Areas.More