Fact sheets
Marine issues
FAQ: Marine parks & sanctuaries
- What is a marine national park?
- What can I do in a marine national park?
- Do we need more marine national parks?
- Does recreational fishing have an environmental impact?
- What's the impact on regional jobs?
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Victoria's marine parks and sanctuaries
- Maps showing Victoria's marine protected areas
- Snapshots of each marine park and sanctuary
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Life under the sea
- Giant kelp forests, seagrass meadows and more!
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Why exclude fishing from marine national parks?
- Looking after the megafauna of our oceans
- Effects of trawling
- Recreational fishing
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Why not multi-zone marine parks?
- A question of scale
- Marine national parks are multi-use
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Marine parks and sustainable communities
- Direct employment
- Marine research
- Boosting tourism
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Fire and biodiversity
Victorian bushfires 2009
- Why did these fires happen?
- Can we do more control burns?
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National parks and fire
- How frequent have past bushfires been in Australia?
- Were cows effective in reducing alpine fires?
- How does fire affect parks?
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Riparian land
Riparian land in Victoria, problems and solutions
- Summary sheet of the issues facing Victoria's native vegetation along the state's waterways
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Threats to Victoria's riparian land
Damage caused to our waterways caused by cattle grazing include:
- Erosion of riverbanks
- Introduction of weeds
- Reduced water quality
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Values of Victoria's riparian land
Victorians value their rivers, creeks and streams for a wide range of reasons, including:
- Healthy riparian zones are crucial for river health
- They provide drinking water for agriculture and domestic use as well as natural waterholes for wildlife
- Many fish and other species use rely on them for habitat
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Climate change
Existing threats to parks and reserves
- Feral animals rampant across Victoria
- Managing weed invasions
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Fire and the future
- An ancient, fiery relationship
- Mountain Ash forests
- Rainforests
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Predictions
- Future climate change predictions
- Changing ecosystems
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Rivers, coastal saltmarshes and wetlands
- Less rain another blow to our Red Gum wetlands
- Coastal saltmarshes caught in "pincer effect"
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Species migration
- Alpine areas must vulnerable to climate change
- Species forced to march south
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Biodiversity
Land and biodiversity at a time of climate change
- Land and Biodiversity at a Time of Climate Change White Paper
- Native plants and animals pushed to edge of extinction