Australia’s 44+ Commonwealth marine parks stretch throughout thousands and thousands of hectares. Discover what’s inside them, the protections your help is strengthening, and what the 2026 Assessment may change for good.
Discover the Oceans You’re Defending
See the marine parks your help helps defend, mapped throughout Australia’s shoreline.
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👆 Click on the filter icon (prime left) to discover wildlife habitats and marine park zones.
You’re serving to finish damaging fishing in protected waters
Due to donors such as you, Greenpeace can examine and expose the economic fishing taking place inside Australia’s marine parks, and push for the legal guidelines that may lastly cease it.
Backside trawling
Your help helps ban heavy nets from protected ocean flooring.
Longlining
You’re serving to take away the hooks that catch turtles, sharks, and seabirds.
The loophole
You’re serving to shut the zoning gaps that permit extractive industries in.
Your help funds the investigation that holds the federal government to account, for each ocean, each species.
The once-in-a-decade assessment
This June, the Australian Authorities begins its formal assessment of the marine parks community. It occurs each ten years. Due to your help, we’re able to push for 3 adjustments that might rework these parks for good.
1
Develop safety into areas of excessive biodiversity, the place the rarest species want probably the most room to get well and thrive.
2
Take away the loopholes that permit backside trawling and longlining function inside waters meant to guard the animals that dwell there.
3
Join our parks to new ocean sanctuaries past Australia’s borders beneath the World Ocean Treaty, creating corridors that animals just like the leatherback turtle really want.
Collectively, we are able to flip the properties of turtles and sharks into the true sanctuaries they have been at all times meant to be, and it begins with you.
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