The Australian Director of National Parks is looking to run a trial to use drones to monitor, detect, and collect information about prohibited activities, such as illegal fishing operations, in ...

Australia’s network of marine parks - a decade in the making and announced in 2012 - haven’t been implemented yet, and the Abbott government has already placed the plans under review. Why the ...

Australia is known for protecting its sea life in a 3.3 million square kilometer (1.3 million square mile) system of marine parks that covers 36 percent of the country’s oceans. The protection ...

Giving Australia's marine parks better protection won't solve the problem of hotter, more acidic oceans due to climate change. Australia's current emission target is consistent with a 2°C warming ...

This same erosion of protection is also proposed in Western Australia, where the government’s draft plan would reduce green zones by 43% across the largest marine parks in the region.

Australia plans to create the world’s largest network of marine reserves, its government announced Thursday.

Nov. 16, 2012, 10:06 AM EST / Source: Reuters Australia created the world's largest network of marine national parks on Friday, protecting an area of ocean the size of Western Europe in a move ...

The Australian government has moved to create two new marine protected areas that cover an expanse of ocean twice the size of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The two parks will be established ...

Tourism operators and environmentalists say the Federal Government's new draft plan for marine parks almost halves the protections from commercial fishing set five years ago.

Parks Australia Head of Division, Jason Mundy, agrees and adds that the learnings will aid Parks Australia in managing remote marine parks.

Verhoeff said that the Carnarvon flapjack octopus is unique to one specific region of northwestern Australia and that its presence adds “extra value to these recently established marine parks.” ...

Australia plans to create the world’s largest network of marine reserves, its government announced Thursday.