SA needs no take sanctuary zones

View the Wilderness society video about the need for World Class Sanctuary Zones in SA Marine Parks:

http://youtu.be/IuDMcQ11hnM

Planned marine parks necessary: scientists

A group of researchers are studying fish off the northern coast of Kangaroo Island in a bid to make 19 planned South Australian marine parks effective. This story by Stateline last year, interviews marine ecologist, Simon Bryars about his work on western blue groper and harlequin fish, research that is vital to the design of sanctuary zones.

Another Harsh Reality, Collapse of World Ocean Fisheries

... caught between plagues of jellyfish, overfishing, nutrient pollution, bioaccumulation of toxics in marine mammals, carbon emissions turning our oceans acidic, the oceans phytoplankton declining by about 40 per cent over the past century, dead zones, garbage patch’s, increasing ocean temperatures and changing currents - our entire marine food chain seems to be in peril.

To read more goto http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article28126.html

Marine parks debate on Radio National

Prof Hugh Possingham (Professor of Mathematics and Ecology at the University of Queensland; Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions) and Prof Robert Kearney (Emeritus Professor in Fisheries at the University of Canberra) were interviewed by Geraldine Doogue on Radio National about marine parks. Here is the link to the podcast.