Oceanwise Australia

With 2025 expected to surpass 1.5°C of global warming, threatening to destroy 70-90% of the world's coral reefs, developing this mega gas field is the last thing we can afford.

Rare glimpse at stunning reef near Woodside’s gas plans Scott Reef is, in the words of author Tim Winton, the last “unspoiled” clear-water coral reef in Australia.

Thanks ROLEX, Mission Blue Sylvia A. Earle Alliance and all our partners and collaborators for helping to highlight the awesome biodiversity of the Exmouth Gulf & Ningaloo Reef Hope Spot.

Mission Blue: Exmouth Gulf and Ningaloo Coast Hope Spot – Uncharted Waters Beneath the turquoise waters of Australia’s World Heritage-listed Ningaloo Coast is one of the planet’s largest fringing coral reefs. Although highly protect...

We can do better. Better laws and better energy would be a good start...

Letter to the Federal Government to close the climate gap on our nature laws | Climate Council A group of leading marine scientists have written to Prime Minister Albanese with an urgent plea to heed the science and reject new coal and gas projects for the sake of the world’s coral reefs.

Good outcome today after a lot of hard work from a lot of people.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=844291464026709&id=100053375900302&mibextid=CDWPTG

Woodside temporarily blocked from carrying out seismic testing at major gas project off WA coast Woodside is temporarily blocked from moving ahead with part of the Scarborough gas project off Western Australia's northern coast.

This wild paradise offers a window into the past and future of our planet Ningaloo's sparkling turquoise waters and marine life are well known to many, but this World Heritage treasure extends to the land, too — and conservationists fear its future is on a knife's edge.

Still so many unique, varied and fascinating species to be discovered, especially in our oceans and preferably before human impacts drive them to extinction:

Paddleboarding scientist’s dead sea snake find in Exmouth the latest piece in zoological mystery The Exmouth Gulf is considered a sea snake biodiversity hotspot with 11 out of 24 West Australian species now recorded in the globally significant environment but more research is needed to get a better understanding of the cryptic creatures and how best to protect them.

Congratulations to the Western Australia community and Government for taking this important first step in protecting the globally unique Exmouth Gulf. This newly-protected area exists in a particularly important bioregion for conservation that has been poorly represented in marine parks to date, and has sustained an incredible amount of industrialization in the last two decades. Creating a representative marine park containing the arid mangrove forests, humpback whales, dugongs, turtles, sea snakes, seabirds, mantas, sharks and rays, fish, crustaceans, mollusks and echinoderms unique to this part of the world is vital to conservation. Pics Andrew Davenport Deanna Corrieri Alcs Willems Jason Dickie Andre Rerekura and more...

https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2021/12/Historic-protections-to-safeguard-spectacular-Exmouth-Gulf.aspx