1 million sq km marine park
Submitted by bod on Sat, 2009-10-24 11:53
"This is a truly unique and empowering opportunity for our generation to raise awareness of the amazingly diverse richness of this marine environment. How many nations can ever consider the choice of declaring the largest marine heritage park on Earth?"
Her sign-up comes days after angry fishermen kept the pressure on Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett at a protest meeting in Cairns, The Cairns Post reports.
Conservation groups including the US-based Pew Foundation and the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre are lobbying for 1 million sq km of ocean between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and Australia's maritime border to be placed in a marine park.
The park would be about 100km east of Cairns at its closest point.
Commercial fishing and charter fishing would be banned in the area and dive and snorkel tourism operators would need a permit.
The area in question was placed under a conservation zone in May, with commercial charter operators and researchers now required to have a permit along with commercial fishers.
Marine park activists recently launched a television campaign and yesterday said Lucas was an ideal ambassador given her ties with Cairns and the way she had placed herself in the frontline of marine wildlife protection in The Cove, a film exposing the slaughter of dolphins in Japan.
Lobbying for a Coral Sea Marine Park
October 24, 2009 11:52am
HOLLYWOOD star Isabel Lucas has been enlisted in conservationists' controversial Battle of the Coral Sea, calling on people to make a protected marine park happen in the Coral Sea off Cairns.
"This is a truly unique and empowering opportunity for our generation to raise awareness of the amazingly diverse richness of this marine environment. How many nations can ever consider the choice of declaring the largest marine heritage park on Earth?"
Her sign-up comes days after angry fishermen kept the pressure on Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett at a protest meeting in Cairns, The Cairns Post reports.
Conservation groups including the US-based Pew Foundation and the Cairns and Far North Environment Centre are lobbying for 1 million sq km of ocean between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and Australia's maritime border to be placed in a marine park.
The park would be about 100km east of Cairns at its closest point.
Commercial fishing and charter fishing would be banned in the area and dive and snorkel tourism operators would need a permit.
The area in question was placed under a conservation zone in May, with commercial charter operators and researchers now required to have a permit along with commercial fishers.
Marine park activists recently launched a television campaign and yesterday said Lucas was an ideal ambassador given her ties with Cairns and the way she had placed herself in the frontline of marine wildlife protection in The Cove, a film exposing the slaughter of dolphins in Japan.
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Uh Oh the Nomad boys won't
Uh Oh the Nomad boys won't be happy, I hope this doesn't come to Fruition for young Isabel as it's one of the greatest C and R fisheries in the world.
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