Banishing bandits: other countries bear the cost
A new study reveals the strategies that stop bandits from illegally fishing in Australian waters—but warns there is a cost to the region’s poorer countries. Co-author Dr Brock Bergseth, from th
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
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Tarte, D and Hughes, TP (2020). Review of State Party report on the state of conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. Australian Marine Conservation Society, 1-9 pp.
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Pratchett, M and Kelley, R (2020). Guide to some harvested aquarium corals. FRDC, 1-17 pp.
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Marsh, H, Collins, K, Grech, A, Miller, R and Rankin, R (2020). An assessment of the distribution and abundance of dugongs and in-water, large marine turtles along the Queensland coast from Cape York to Hinchinbrook Island. GBRMPA, 1-86 pp. Link to full text or pdf
Lau, JD, Sutcliffe, S and Hungito, W (2020). Lived experiences of Covid-19: impacts on an atoll island community, Papua New Guinea. James Cook University, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Australia, 1-19 pp.
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Lambert, V, Collier, C, Brodie, J, Adams, MP, Baird, M, Bainbridge, Z, Carter, A, Lewis, S, Rasheed, M, Saunders, M and O’Brien, K (2020). Connecting sediment load targets to ecological outcomes for seagrass. The National Environmental Science Program. Reef and Rainforest Research Centre Limited, Cairns, 1-141 pp.
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Gomese, C, Siota, F, Ride, A and Kleiber, D (2020). Reflections on integrating gender-sensitive facilitation techniques in fieldtrip reports. Pacific Community (SPC), Fiji, 1-3 pp.
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Gomese, C, Kleiber, D, Mangubhai, S and Paniel, C (2020). Building capacity for gender work in fisheries and aquaculture: examples from the Pacific. Pacific Community (SPC), Fiji, 1-5 pp. Link to full text or pdf
Desbiens, A and Wolfe, K (2020). Observations of juvenile Stichopus sp. on a coral reef in Palau. Pacific Community (SPC), Mons, Belgium, 53-55 pp.
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A new study reveals the strategies that stop bandits from illegally fishing in Australian waters—but warns there is a cost to the region’s poorer countries. Co-author Dr Brock Bergseth, from th
Five world-renowned scientists have signed a letter to UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay to "thank UNESCO for its leadership in recognising the threat of climate change to the Great Barrier Reef
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New research shows what is often assumed to be ‘fair’ in conservation practice may not be considered so by the very people most affected by it—and a new approach is needed if protected areas are
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