Sentences with phrase «ningaloo marine park»

Because the ship wreckage is in a nationally protected marine park and coral reef, removing the wreckage has proven difficult and costly.

The conditions require that sediment entering the marine park be reduced by 150 percent over the long term — a «net benefit» to water quality — and that $ 81 million be contributed to reef conservation programmes and specific measures observed to protect marine flora and fauna.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) chairman Russell Reichelt said he recognised there was intense community concern and debate about the application by North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation to dispose of dredge spoil in the park.

The latest figures on the coral death from recent bleaching events are also higher than predicted, with further coral decline expected in 2017, according to Russell Reichelt, Chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

«The concept of «maintaining ecological function» refers to the balance of ecological processes necessary for the reef ecosystem as a whole to persist, but perhaps in a different form,» a spokesperson for Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority explained, «noting the composition and structure may differ from what is currently seen today.»

Dan has served on the Institute of Brewing Studies Board of Advisors, as director and treasurer of Save the Harbor / Save the Bay, a local environmental advocacy organization, president of the Boston Marine Park Business Association, and founding president of the Massachusetts Brewer's Guild.

But instead of living in Old Mill Basin or Bay Ridge, Marine Park or Bensonhurst, those neighborhoods I knew like I knew myself, my family landed in Brooklyn Heights.

Be sure to check out the special diving vacations (there's even an underwater marine park).

If you're in Nassau and want to try raw conch, head for Arawak Cay by the bridge to Coral Island Marine Park and Underwater Observatory.

«There has been a lot of criticism in the past that marine parks were only established for political purposes,» said the Primary Industries Minister, Katrina Hodgkinson.

The Coalition said the former Labor government of establishing new protection zones in the Jervis Bay and Solitary Islands marine parks shortly before the last election to attract Greens preferences.

The authority will advise Ms Hodgkinson and the Environment Minister, Robyn Parker, on the future of the state's marine park estate.

The Ministerial Forum is comprised of two ministers each from the Australian and Queensland governments with responsibility for matters relating to the environment and marine parks, science, tourism and / or natural resource management.

Situated in South Shields you'll find the South Marine Park.

At 7:30 p.m., Rep. Yvette Clarke attends a Madison - Marine - Homecrest Civic Association meeting, Carmine Carro Community Center, Marine Park, Fillmore Avenue and Madison Place, Brooklyn.

Coney Island News article on Borough President Adams calling for the expansion of NYC Ferry service to Canarsie, Coney Island, and Marine Park.

Sheepshead Bites article on Marine Park getting a facelift with a habitat restoration and trail development project, quoting BP Adams.

At 6 p.m, sate Sen. Marty Golden hosts his his 16th Anniversary 9/11 Memorial Ceremony, Marine Park, 3000 Fillmore Ave., Brooklyn.

I will be running for a State Senate seat next year in the Brooklyn district I grew up in, which spans the neighborhoods of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Marine Park, Manhattan Beach, Gerritsen Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend, and parts of Midwood.

The neighborhood Marine Park is connected to the middle portion of Golden's district by a thin strip, at one point only a block wide.

Golden won re-election that year, largely because of a strong showing in neighborhoods like Marine Park, Gerristen Beach and Manhattan Beach.

UFT protesters have shown up with leaflets at every Golden district event, including the senator's appearance at Salt Marsh Environmental Center in Marine Park on April 13.

On Sunday, April 22, the fair moves to the Avenue U parking lot between Stuart Street and East 33rd Street in Marine Park.

The district includes Brownsville, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Park Slope, Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park and Gerritsen Beach.

It was complete with corned beef, shepherd's pie and soda bread and performers from the O'Malley School of Irish dance of Marine Park.

Voters living between Brighton Beach and Bergen Beach are going to the polls to pick between Councilman Lew Fidler (D — Marine Park) and Republican attorney David Storobin, ending a heated campaign for the seat Kruger gave up last December before pleading guilty to accepting $ 1 million in bribes.

Among the Brooklyn seats that are currently empty are Adams» former State Senate District 20, Councilwoman Inez Barron's former Assembly District 60, which encompasses Brownsville and East New York; Councilman Rafael Espinal's Assembly District 54, which serves Bushwick and Cypress Hills; and Assembly District 59 where Councilmember Alan Maisel covered parts of Marine Park and Canarsie.

Despite the good news of the find, sea snake numbers have been declining in several marine parks, and scientists are at a loss to explain why.

In the late 1980s, things were not going well for the coral reefs at Jamaica's Montego Bay Marine Park.

But the draft decision on the coral reef report «is very disappointing,» says Jon Day, a report contributing author and a resource manager formerly with Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

He also heard the squeal at marine parks in response to trainers» whistles.

Bigger than the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and larger than all U.S. national parks combined, the region harbors more than 7,000 species, including critically endangered Hawaiian monk seals.

Heleno Armando da Silva, director of the Fernando de Noronha national marine park, says the threat from the tejus has driven many seabirds to nest in trees, which they would not normally do.

Wells says the work may also help establish a marine park to protect the Dampier archipelago.

This will help in management of the marine park.

The U.S. Navy on Tuesday offered Australia any help it wanted to retrieve four bombs mistakenly dropped inside the World Heritage - listed Great Barrier Reef marine park last week.

In one typical proposal, the Dudgeon Point expansion, the North Queensland Bulk Ports Corp. has proposed to dredge 13 million cubic meters of sediment and dispose of it inside the Marine Park.

This needs to be taken into consideration when setting collection limits and managing marine parks.»

Kline said the Great Barrier Reef is inside what's considered to be «one of the best managed and most successful» marine parks in the world.

Large marine parks have been created around the world in rapid succession during the last decade, quadrupling the amount of protected ocean to nearly 4 percent.

The sweeping reefs growing off 200 steamy miles of remote Australian coastline — from Cairns to Cape Melville, home to sugar farms and dive resorts — contained some of the least damaged corals growing in one of the world's best marine parks.

It generates $ 4.45 billion in tourism revenue annually and supports nearly 70,000 jobs, according to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.

It intended to keep six for its own display, and transfer 11 to SeaWorld marine parks, and one to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago, Illinois.

In stunning new findings that have laid bare the limitations of marine parks as defenses against rapid environmental change, more than half of the corals surveyed in large chunks of this pristine stretch of the Great Barrier Reef are expected to soon be dead.

Most of the seals and sea lions in the marine park in Western Australia where the trainer worked were found to be infected, and had to be destroyed.

Tony Larkum from the University of Sydney has joined forces with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority to launch a project called the Effect of Nutrient Enrichment on Coral Reefs (ENCORE), which is supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council.

A joint French and Italian committee began work last month on turning the Strait of Bonifacio, the stretch of water between Corsica and Sardinia in the Mediterranean, into a marine park.

Plans to start mining and exporting coal from one of the country's biggest deposits — the Galilee basin — require the expansion of the Abbot Point shipping port in north Queensland, within the boundaries of the famous marine park.

The plan also fails to question the need for four port expansions that will involve dredging inside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.

Brodie says the main problem is that the document doesn't accept that the reef is in decline, contradicting the marine park authority's own report from earlier this year.