In the media
Shortly after the break of a warm dawn, our dive boat was speeding across the stretch of water between Mullaway beach and North Solitary Island on the New South Wales north coast. Schools of bonito tuna broke the surface and a lone fisherman on a sea kayak appeared as a silhouette backlit by the sunrise. […]
It is not often that human beings get to stand on dry land anywhere on planet Earth and know they are the first to leave a footprint. Stepping off her inflatable tender on to a sand and coral rubble outcrop at Holmes Reef, 200km offshore from Cairns, photographer Julia Sumerling said: “Welcome to the newest […]
ON the Sunshine Coast, our way of life is inexorably connected to our great blue backyard. The sea provides us with profitable industries, an enviable lifestyle and a place for recreation. For the makers of a new environmental documentary, the connection between the ocean and the communities who live near it was a source of […]
THE Sunshine Coast Environment Council (SCEC) and Save Our Marine Life Alliance has put out a call to Sunshine Coast divers, tourism operators, conservationists, scientists, fishermen and other marine-loving people to get down to Alexandra Headland on Tuesday to show their support for marine sanctuaries! At 12.30pm they plan to unfurl an enormous, colourful banner […]
With a nation-wide review of marine reserves underway, conservationists are lobbying the Federal Government to extend an existing protection zone across the Bremer Canyon. An ecological hotspot, they say the potential for oil and gas prospecting places the area at risk. For two months of the year, a remote area around 60 km off the […]
Coastal activists are worried the fight about potential oil exploration off the Margaret River could be on again, reports Warren Hately in the Margaret River Times on 20 March 2015. Read More: AMR Times 200315 Oil exploration threat rises again
Manly and North Head have been named the biggest biodiversity hot spots in Sydney in a survey led by citizen scientists. The Reef Life survey conducted last month revealed an increase in tropical fish numbers in the area, with volunteers and divers recording 200 fish species at sites including Shelly Beach, Fairy Bower and North […]
An online petition is calling on the Federal Government to establish a marine sanctuary over the Bremer Canyon, a recently discovered natural phenomenon about 70km off Bremer Bay, reports Shannon Hampton in the Albany Advertiser on 12 March, 2015. The petition, started by Save Our Marine Life and supported by Bremer Bay businesses, is expected […]
World-famous US aquanaut Sylvia Earle, Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society, has spoken at Womadelaide 2015. SEISMIC testing and drilling for oil and gas in the Great Australian Bight threatens whales, dolphins, sea lions, and other sea creatures, warns visiting US marine biologist Dr Sylvia Earle. Ever since she started diving in the […]
Byron Bay locals recently campaigning for marine sanctuary protection are featured in the documentaries, reported the Echo Net Daily on 10 March. Read more: http://www.echo.net.au/2015/03/marine-filmmakers-throw-light-north-coast-sanctuaries/
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