A national approach to addressing marine biodiversity decline

Source: Dept. of the Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts
" recently published report identifies significant, broad-scale threats to Australia’s marine biodiversity and proposes key directions for a cross-jurisdictional national approach to addressing these threats. The five significant, broad-scale threats to marine biodiversity identified in the report are climate change, resource use, land-based impacts, marine biosecurity and marine pollution. Eight key policy directions have been proposed to minimise these threats and to improve coordination and the capacity of governments to understand and respond to marine biodiversity decline."