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 cover 36 percent of the country’s oceans. The protection of those ...

Australia has the third largest ocean territory on the planet, measuring 13.8 million square kilometers, including the ...

Australia today created the world’s biggest network of marine protected areas, setting an important precedent for ocean protection as countries prepare to meet for the Rio+20 meeting on sustainable ...

Elizabeth Sinclair receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Diana Walker is a long standing member of both the Marine Parks and Reserves Authority of Western Austalia and the Shark Bay ...

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 ...

Australia on Thursday announced plans to create the world's largest network of marine parks to protect ocean life, with limits placed on fishing and oil and gas exploration off the coast. The new ...

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 which ...

When Australia established a vast network of marine reserves in 2012, it was hailed as a major win for conservation. But management plans for the sea havens were suspended a year later. Now, ...

Jessica Meeuwig has received funding from the National Environmental Science Programme and the Ian Potter Foundation in relation to understanding offshore marine protected areas. David Booth has ...

Mother Jones on environmental protest in China Jaeah Lee explains how, in the face of environmental protests that have growing in both size and frequeny, China's environment minister has instated new ...