Publication Name
Discovery News
Author(s)
Sarah Simpson
The Coral Sea, off the coast of northwestern Australia, is home to some of the healthiest tropical marine ecosystems left on Earth, with tuna, turtles, whales and sharks still found there in healthy numbers.
The Australian government now has a plan to protect this global treasure across the full extent of its exclusive economic zone, great news for conservationists who campaigned passionately for this outcome for years. But protecting biodiversity is never simple.
The latest outcry from some ocean advocates is that the new proposal, currently out for public comment, does not do enough to safeguard many of the region’s most precious resources.
Discovery News writer Kieran Mulvaney presented some scintillating details about the history and impetus behind the multi-year campaign to protect the Coral Sea in his analysis of a report the Pew Environment Group released in August 2011.
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Read the full article, What's the Coral Sea without Coral?, on the Discovery News website.
