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TTT Sept-2017 Web2.Pdf CREDITS&CONTACTS From the DIRECTOR OUT OF THE BLUE 4 Australian Marine Conservation Society PO Box 5815 Darren Kindleysides WEST END QLD 4101 SAVING OUR GREAT BARRIER REEF 6 Ph: (07) 3846 6777 Fax: (07) 3846 6788 AUSTRALIA’S NEW MARINE PARKS PLAN 8 Email: [email protected] Time to buy some www.marineconservation.org.au Patron TURNING THE TIDE ON PLASTIC POLLUTION 14 Tim Winton INSURANCE AMCS Management Committee President: Nick Heath You have heard this story before. NEW FELICITY WISHART REEF 18 Secretary: Mary-Ann Pattison Our oceans are under increasing pressure. The symptoms are Treasurer: Rowan Wallace unmissable; mass coral bleaching, unprecedented mangrove and kelp HOW TO SAVE THE REEF, GILLIAN AGE 7 19 General Member: Craig McGovern forest die offs, less fish and more plastic. Our seas need our help now General Member: Jason Hinks more than ever. General Member: Dr Jill StJohn So how is it that rather than offering more help, our Australian CONTENTS DEVOTION TO THE OCEAN 22 General Member: Alison Johnson Government is planning to offer less – much less? General Member: Richard Leck Marine conservation in Australia been progressing until now. For decades General Member: Dr David Neil successive governments from both sides of politics had shown real AMCS Staff leadership, taking us forwards rather than backwards. Australia led the world with our national network of marine reserves that was set up at the Director: Darren Kindleysides end of 2012, but that has since changed. Great Barrier Reef Team: Imogen Zethoven, AO, Dr Lissa Schindler, Shannon The current Australian Government under Malcom Turnbull’s leadership is looking to gut what was a world-best network. They are proposing to Hurley, Sandra Williams, Tony Fontes, David revoke 40 million hectares of fully protected marine sanctuaries, which Cazzulino are our national parks in the sea. Think about an area the size of Victoria, Fisheries Team: Tooni Mahto, Josh Coates then double it. That is how big the proposed cuts are. Marine Campaign Team: Adele Pedder, Yet across our blue planet more and more nations are expanding marine James Cordwell, Sharnie Connell reserves to give their seas, and the people who rely on them, a fighting Communications Team: Ingrid Neilson, chance. So at a time when nations are advancing marine protection, why 6 11 14 18 Shane Cucow, Gemma Freeman is Australia going backwards? Fundraising Team: Stefanie Kessler, Jacinta It feels like it is time to buy some insurance. Not life insurance, but McLennan, Emma Morgan marine life insurance. And I know the best policy. It is not a new product. Operations Team: Kellie Ireland, Loretta It is tried and tested. It comes recommended by scientists and ocean We deserve better than this fudging Ranieri, Renee Weidenhofer, Julie Lazbin, users the world over. Tina Dalby Marine sanctuaries are an insurance policy for marine life and people. and scheming, and so do our seas. There is overwhelming scientific evidence that they allow marine species Turning The Tide Coordinator to recover and rebuild. They protect the health and balance of marine Jessie Newman ecosystems, which in turn protects us as a coastal nation. In Australia It’s not too late for excellence. Cover Photograph alone, tens of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars or revenue depend on healthy oceans. Leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) Or a legacy to be proud of. by Steve Parish, steveparish.com.au Life insurance premiums are cheaper the earlier we take up a policy. And there can come a point when it is too late. You cannot insure the patient Graphic Designer after they’ve been declared ill. Protecting our oceans is no different. Sanctuaries and science can still be restored to Jacki Stone, Jacstar Design Investing in marine sanctuaries today is a far better, cheaper and easier option than waiting until our oceans collapse and trying to fix the problems Paper marine parks. But that will take statesmanship, later. And the longer we delay the greater the price we will pay. It cannot Printed on recycled paper, FSC Mixed be a price we leave for our children and our grandchildren to meet. Sources Certified principle and courage. Marine sanctuaries work. Establishing a scientifically solid national TIM WINTON, Acclaimed author and AMCS Patron Printer network of marine reserves throughout Australia’s waters creates a Enviroprint Australia legacy of ocean health. Winding the network backwards radically and recklessly, creates a litany of problems deferred and oceans damaged. The views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the Australian Marine Conservation It will also perpetuate one the greatest inequalities we face today – the Society Inc. All written material contained in ‘Turning the inequality that exists between current and future generations. I will not Read Tim’s full Op Ed: marineconservation.org.au Tide’ may be reprinted. Reprinted material must include the sit idly by and leave a broken ocean legacy to my kids. Thank you for name of author (s) and be credited to the AMCS ‘Turning the Tide’ publication. standing with us as we fight on. Australian Marine Conservation Society 3 out of the BLUE NEWS from around our shores Check us out on twitter for live OUT OF THE BLUE updates & news: @AustMarConsSoc Great White Shark © Troy Mayne / Oceanic Imagery News from around our shores AMCS takes #STOPADANI momentum continues! BLUE The movement to #StopAdani is gathering pace – with millions of Australians taking action to stop Adani’s dangerous coal mine inland from our Great nationwide Barrier Reef. No financial lenders will touch it, with This winter AMCS and our partners in the CommBank recently joining the other ‘big four’ banks to Save Our Marine Life Alliance took the rule out funding for this controversial coal mine. Now the Northern stunning new documentary BLUE on a Australian Infrastructure Fund (NAIF which has the power to loan Adani roadshow to five cities around Australia. $1 billion of our taxes) is under investigation. WA leads shark control BLUE is a provocative journey into our Incredibly, Adani is challenging the fine that it received from the Qld oceans, witnessing this critical moment Environment Department for spilling massive amounts of coal-laden water Vicious Marine Park INNOVATION when our marine world is on a precipice. right next to the Reef during Cyclone Debbie. This is a stark reminder that CUTBACKS PROPOSED Adani can’t be trusted with our Reef or even respecting our laws. Filmed over two years in Indonesia, the Unbelievable plans to slash our national Philippines, Hawaii and Australia, BLUE The priority of our federal and state governments should be protecting network of marine sanctuaries have been comes at a time in human society when Great white sharks have been shark controls. They’ve installed our Great Barrier Reef and the 64,000 workers who depend on its released by the Federal Government. we are making decisions that will decide demonised in parts of the media, electromagnetic barriers off health, not propping up a billion-dollar international corporate giant They are proposing shocking cutbacks but this threatened species remains Cottesloe Beach – a measure used intent on damaging it further. With record-breaking temperatures to Australia’s sanctuary zones, putting the legacy we leave for our children. in urgent need of protection and our rare dolphins, dugongs and turtles successfully in South Africa. There year upon year, mass coral bleachings and a tourism industry under The sold-out crowds loved this powerful at risk and paving the way for destructive our Minister for the Environment are other non-lethal measures to pressure, we need clean sustainable jobs, not dirty subsidised coal movie and responded passionately to commercial fishing methods and oil and refuses to act. Rather than proposing reduce our interactions with sharks, mines like Adani’s Carmichael coal mine. Thank you for being part of protections, Minister Frydenberg gas giants. its strong message: our oceans are in with the NSW government also the movement to Fight for our Reef and Stop Adani. stirred up the shark cull debate again The proposed changes would be the trouble and we all need to join the fight testing drones, Artificial Intelligence when he called for the Western largest wind back of conservation to save them. and shark buoys. protection in Australia’s history – an area Australian government to catch and equivalent to revoking every second kill sharks following a fatal encounter The Federal Environment Minister national park in Australia. © Jemma Scott earlier in the year. Our hearts go out should be standing up for GOVERNMENT’S to the family and friends of the young charity attack Our national marine sanctuary network threatened species. We have the surfer, but culls are not the answer. Our right to speak out threatened – again took more than a decade of science, technology to co-exist with these overwhelming community support and The WA McGowan Government apex species. We just need the The attack on charities who stand up for nature continues, following the bipartisan political work. We must defend it. is actively looking at smarter action and political will. Australian government’s inquiry into charitable organisations in 2015. While some politicians have spoken out in our defence (including some within Head to page eight to read a synopsis government), the inquiry’s most controversial recommendations have now on the cutbacks from two of Australia’s leading marine scientists. been proposed in a government Discussion Paper. Think of the places we love in Australia; The Great Barrier Reef, Ningaloo, Supermarket giants #BANTHEBAG Fraser Island, the Blue Mountains. None of these places would have been Six billion plastic bags are given out by Coles and Woolworths every protected without the advocacy from environmental groups, staffed by year.
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