Tag: "marine environment protection"

Great Barrier Reef, satellite image, courtesy of NASA by MISR

First Step Toward Protecting Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Last Thursday the Queensland Parliament passed the Great Barrier Reef Protection Amendment Bill. The new law targets reducing the run-off of nutrients, pesticides and sediment from farming land onto the Great Barrier Reef.

MASS Ocean Management Area

Massachusetts Develops First Comprehensive Ocean Management Plan

Massachusetts has drafted the first-in-the-nation comprehensive ocean management plan and will have the final promulgation ready by December 31, 2009.