New doco focuses on marine park, writes Kerstin Kehren in the Cairns Post on 2 February 2015.

Cairns gets to host the premiere of a home grown film about the extraordinary seas surrounding Australia and the inspiring people who look after them, the Cairns Sun reports on 28 January 2015.

A series of marine parks around Australia are under threat. The public’s ignorance of their existence is just as dangerous to their survival as mining. The Guardian Oceans Correspondent James Woodford reports. Eight years ago in the crystal waters of Lefroy Bay at Ningaloo, off north-western Australia, I met marine mammal royalty and was forever […]

North Coast retirees are reaping the mental and physical benefits of healthy marine areas, according to a new survey of community attitudes to the marine environment, the Northern Star reports. The NSW Government Marine Estate Management Authority’s long-awaited Marine Estate Community Survey shows North Coast locals have a deep pride in and connection to their […]

An amnesty which allowed illegal fishing within marine park sanctuary zones was meant to run for six months but has continued since March 2013, Melinda McMillan reports in the Newcastle Herald. Sanctuaries were to have special protection as no-take zones within marine parks. The amnesty, introduced by the O’Farrell government, allowed for recreational line fishing […]

NINGALOO REEF is being hailed as a conservation and economic success story 10 years after a worldwide campaign prompted the Australian Government to extend its protected status. Yesterday marked 10 years since the Federal Government extended Ningaloo’s total sanctuary zones from 10 per cent of the reef to 34 per cent, making it one of […]

They can scoop up 6,200 tonnes of fish in one expedition, then freeze their catch on board and start again. Such is the scale of super trawlers, or freezer factories, that for two years have been banned from entering Australian waters. But that could change now the ban has been lifted and companies look at […]

An expert scientific panel has warned of broad environmental risks of a supertrawler in Australia’s small pelagic fishery. In a report on the controversial plan, the federal government-appointed panel found a host of protected native seals and seabirds would be at risk of losing their food to the fishing, even if special precautions were taken. […]

AT LEAST 30 PER CENT of the world’s oceans should be protected as marine parks where fishing and mining are banned, according to a new target set at the close of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s World Parks Congress in Sydney yesterday… http://www.abc.net.au/environment/articles/2014/11/20/4132754.htm

At least 30 per cent of the world’s oceans and coastal waters should be protected by 2030, according to a new global target set on Wednesday by scientists and conservation experts… http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/at-least-30-of-oceans-should-be-protected-scientists/5904768