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CALM Head Office PO Box 104 T l t CALM District Office -.. ... CALM RegiOnal Office · CALM Head Office 67 Knight Terrace 193 Marine Terrace 50 Hayman Road Denham 6537 -po Box 72 PO Box 104 (099) 481 208 Geraldton 6530 Como 6152 (099) 215 955 (09)334 0333 Felted fanfiower Shark Bay rose World' h The stromatolites at Hamelin Pool Shark Bay became a World· role seagrasses play 'in modi,fying a Beach and Cape Peron and unique Heritage listed area in 1991 and is whole marine ecosystem. natural phenomena such as the one of only a handful of places in The seagrass directly influences stromatolites and the Wooram'el the world tha ~ satisfy all four the physics, chemistry, biology and seagrass bank. To fully appreciate natural criteria for listing. i . geology of the Bay. For instance, the beauty of the Bay it is recommended that visitors take a Other places include the Great seagrasses have created the Faure Barrier Reef, Tasmanian Wilderness Sill, which has in turn created the scenic flight over the area. Shell Beach and the Wet Tropics of Queensland. hypersaline environment needed by . Shark Bay also meets the fourth the stromatolites of Hamelin Pool. criterion, by having significant natu- The first-criterion for World Her­ The region is also a meeting point ral habitats Where threatened ani­ itage listing is that the area should have outstanding examples repre­ of three climatic zones, and forms. a . ma! or plant species of outstanding universal value still survive. senting the major stages of the transition zone between two major History botanical provinces - the eucalypt­ The only natural wild populations Earth's evolutionary history. Shark Bay meets this with the Hamelin dominated South West and the of the banded hare-wallaby, western Rople have lived in Shark Bay By the early 1870s, small Pool stromatolites. The living mi­ acacia-dominated Eremaean. barred bandicoot and Shark Bay for many thousands of years. settlements were scattered along ·. crobes building these stromatolites In the marine environment, too, mouse are found on Bernier and Long before European contact, the shoreline and, as well as are similar to those fo und in 3,500 the area is on the northern extremity Dorre Islands. Aboriginal people· lived in the · E1,1 ropeans, pearl ing attracted many. million year old rocks which are the of many cold water species typical of The Bay also has 13 threatened region and an archeological record Malays, isla n d~ rs and Chinese to earliest record of life on Earth. the south and the southern extremity reptile spe,cies, three rare bird of cave shelters and shell middens the region. Denham was then of many tropical northern species. The second criterion is to have species, one tenth of the world's can still be seen today ..C aves named Freshwater ·Camp and outstanding examples representing The third criterion is to have dugong population and significant used by Aboriginal · ,was the main pearljng significant ongoing processes, bio­ . unique, rare or superlative natural loggerhead turtle rookeries . people about 1000 centre in the area. The logical evolution and man's interac­ phe.nomena, formations, or features It is an important site for migratory years ago can be main street was tion with his i:iattiral environment. of exceptional natural beauty. species such as the humpback whale seen on the paved ~it h Shark Bay's enormous seagrass beds Shark Bay h~s exceptional coastal and wading birds from Siberia and Monkey Mia di scar d e d are an· impressive example of the scenery at the Zuytdorp Cliffs, Shell parts of Asia. walktrail. · pearJshell. The fi rst · Th es~e n ch known la"d­ f r om t h e ing of a Euro­ ' pogey pots' pean on Aus­ on the beach tralian soil was was said to be made b.Y Dirk nauseating in Hartog in 1616 at those days. The Cape· Inscription, at the pearlshe!ls were left to northern end of Dirk Hartog Is­ rot in these huge iron caulcjrons land. He erected a post to which he and finally heated up so that the nailed a pewter plate from the ship's resulting stewy mess could be galley to recprd the visit. skimmed off, leaving the pearl content on the bottom. Willem de Vlamingh revisited Rufous hare-wallaby Lion fish Pied cormorant Hartog's landing site in 1697 when After 70 years of trading, the searching for survivors from a Depression in the 1930s caused the missing ship. pearling industry to close. In the past few years the pearling industry William Dampier, the first has undergone a minor revival, English visitor to Australia, landed with the area being used to produce in the same area in 1699. He spent cultured seed pearls. seven days in Shark Bay examining Fishing took over as the mainstay the shore and his name of Shark's Sandalwood has been exported of the district and a cannery and Bay remains today. from Shar k Bay for 100 years. processing works were established . · Following these explorers there in 1912. The first shipments of the were several French and English aromatic timber from Shark Bay left Today, Shark Bay thrives on .scientific expeditions to Shark Bay. in the 1890s, bound for south-east tourism, fishing and wool. A solar The first pastoralists arrived in Asia to be used to make joss sticks salt project at Useless Loop has the 1860s, aboutthe same time as for religious ceremonies. ·produced another vi able the pearl traders. The small pearls commodity contributing to a Shark Bay sandalwood differs found at the Bay had · an unusual growing export trade. from that growing in other parts of lustre and the sheli was in increasing the State. Unlike other sandalwood, demand for b~tton - making. Photo by Patrick Baker it's able to coppice, or send up new stems from a stump once the tree is . industry is managed by the "... : Managing Editor: Ray Bailey cut down. The coppice shoots start Department of Conservation rabbits and other herbivores. Editor: Carolyn Thomson producing seed again in three or four and Land . Management to ensure It's not clearly understood what Contributors: Paul Anderson, Caris Bailey, Bob Bu rne, years, ensuring that harvesting can that timber is only harvested on a Greg Kei.Qhery, Ron Shepherd; Di Walker, Marion White, Barry Wils.on makes Shark Bay sandalwood so be sustained. sustained yield basis. Design: Steve Murnane different. One theory is that the In fact, sandalwood harvesters Its unpalatable leaves.are another deeper red sand loams and more Photos: Lochmao Transparencies Cover photo: Michael Morcombe working on Nanga Station are unusual characteristic of Shark Bay regular rainfall encourages a much Published Febru;iry 1994 by the Department of Conservation and reworking old sandalwood tracks sandalwood - their bitter taste means bigger tap root system, which can band Management, 50 Hayman Road, COMO WA, 6152 from the 1930s, using timber that they are avoided by domestic stock, support coppice growth. Page2 Plan for Peron Damaging feral an_imals may trol of feral animals such as foxes that a helicopter shooting program one day be removed fro~ a I 05,000 and cats can be achieved. However, over the next two summers will hectare are~ of the Shark Bay work to date in Shark Bay has pro­ reduce goat numbers even further. World Heritage area, making it a vided encouraging results. The vegetation on Peron is regen­ haven for rare native animals. The Useless Loop Community erating well with the removal of this Peron Peninsula is .now fence-d Biosphere Project Group and the grazing pressure. off at the narrow Taillefer Isthmus CSIRO appear to have Research into fox and cat control near Shell Beach, and regular eradicated feral foxes will be conducted on Peron in 1994. baiting could keep the entire and controlled cals Each of these projects is an Peninsula free of feral ani­ on the 8,500 important increme ntal step in mals. hectare Hei risson ridding Peron of feral animals and Prong. Feral fo~es and cats thus establishing a suitable habitat have been implicated in Burrowing for native mammals. the disappearance bettongs (left) CALM hopes th at over the next and decline of were recently decade feral control programs will dozens of na­ released on the Prong. · be successful, and rare mammal tive animal Monitoring over the next reintroductions can begin. It will species, and ten of these mammal year will reveal whether the then not be too long before visitors species were once found on Peron. reintroduction has been a success. to the World Heritage "a rea will be They include animals such as the Other feral animals that need at ­ able to see rare mammals. banded hare-wallaby, western barred tention are sheep and goats, which This would be a popular attrac­ bandicoot and the Shark Bay mouse were rampant when the State bought tion and provide a signific a n~ boost which are now extinct on the Aus­ the station in October 1990 to create to the emerging ecotourism industry tralian mainland and survive only the Francois Peron National Park. in Shark Bay. Western barred bandicoot on a few offshore islands. Over the last three years, the Because of its size, the Peninsula Department of Conservation and could support large and stable Land Management has been populations of each of these species. eradicating sheep and goats from Peron and the Bay's other Peron Peninsula. More than 30,000 Francois Peron peninsulas have narrow necks that animals have been removed and it is join them to the mainland, which estimated that only 2000-3000 goats means migration of feral animals remain.
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