Coral Sea

Feb. 14/12

, AWARE Updates

Is This Your Idea of a Marine Reserve?

It doesn't seem possible but a draft plan for a new Coral Sea Marine Reserve leaves most of the area open to shark fishing and fails to protect the coral reefs.

Yes, that’s right. Within the Coral Sea Marine Reserve shark fishing will continue in almost half the area and 90% of reefs will remain exposed to harmful activities.

Does this sound like a Marine Reserve to you?

Use Your Diver-Power to Protect Coral Sea Sharks

Jan. 23/12

, AWARE Updates

Use Your Diver-Power to Protect Coral Sea Sharks

Asked to imagine paradise many divers think of clear, tropical waters teeming with marine life. Throw in some big sharks to get the adrenaline going and we are in diver heaven.

Well there is no need to dream: divers can find their dive paradise in Australia’s Coral Sea, one of the last remaining places where large marine life is still found in abundance.

So it is extraordinary that a proposed new marine park fails to protect over half of the Coral Sea and leaves 90 percent of its coral reefs open to some form of fishing.

Marine Parks and Sharks

Despite the recognized advantages of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), only around 1 percent of the world’s ocean is protected by an MPA and less than 0.1 percent of the ocean is fully protected in no-take zones where all extractive activities are prohibited.

Project AWARE aims to change that and is campaigning for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in Australia to protect vulnerable and unique marine life including sharks.

Recently, Project AWARE, divers and professionals around the world voiced their support to the Australian Government to ensure high levels of protection for marine

Coral Sea Could be World's Largest Marine Park

Nov. 03/11

, In the News

Coral Sea Could be World's Largest Marine Park

LABOR is considering proposals to establish the world's largest marine protected area with 972,000 square kilometres of the Coral Sea to be given differing levels of environmental cover.

The Age believes the draft proposal for the tropical waters between the Great Barrier Reef and the edge of Australian territory will place about half the total region in ''no take'' reserves, stopping fishing.

Sep. 04/11

, AWARE Updates

Protect Our Coral Sea

Last week I attended a meeting of partners to the Protect Our Coral Sea group campaigning for a large, no-take marine park in the Coral Sea. If successful this campaign will create the world's largest marine park over an area so remote from human impacts it is one of the few remaining marine environments that is still virtually pristine.

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Coral Sea

Is This Your Idea of a Marine Reserve?

Use Your Diver-Power to Protect Coral Sea Sharks

Marine Parks and Sharks

Coral Sea Could be World's Largest Marine Park

Protect Our Coral Sea

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