Category: WA Coastal News
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WA Beach Clean-Up Success For Tangaroa Blue Foundation
During October, 2021 Tangaroa Blue Foundation celebrated another successful WA Beach Clean-Up with more than 120 individual sites registered across the state. In its 17th year, it is one of the largest people-powered clean-ups on the West coast and provides a snapshot of the density and diversity of marine debris being found across the coastline […]
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WA Beach Clean-Up 2021: Another successful campaign
The 2021 WA Beach Clean-Up marked the 17th year of this special event. Alongside their partner Keep Australia Beautiful WA, Tangaroa Blue Foundation (TBF) welcomed Tallwood Constructions to their corporate donor base. Their generous contribution provided valuable funding to grow the operational capacity for the WA Beach Clean-Up in 2021. Over 1200 people from across […]
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Activating the Kwinana-Rockingham Coastcare Community
Perth NRM has received Coastwest funding to activate the Kwinana-Rockingham Coastcare community. The City of Kwinana hosts a Perth NRM representative and this new funding will significantly increase the capacity to support the local community in its efforts to improve the condition of the local coastline The Activating the Kwinana-Rockingham Coastcare Community project will engage and […]
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OzFish to replant 1 million seagrass seeds in Western Australia
Seagrass meadows within Western Australia’s Cockburn Sound will again be the focus of community-driven restoration as fishing conservation charity OzFish Unlimited launches Seeds for Snapper 2021 this November. Now in its fourth year, the annual marine restoration program, is calling on the community for help achieve this year’s goals. The project will see the local fishers and divers endeavor to collect, process, and disperse 1 million seagrass seeds to help restore and […]
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Consultation underway for proposed South Coast Marine Park
Consultation is now underway for a proposed marine park on the south coast of Western Australia as part of the State Government’s Plan for Our Parks initiative to create five million hectares of new national parks, marine parks and other conservation reserves by 2024. A marine park on the south coast was identified as a […]
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Uunguu Rangers earn their Coxswain Tickets
This year Wunambal Gaambera’s Uunguu Rangers completed their Coxswain ticket at Mungalalu (Truscott). Now Uunguu Rangers: Ildephonse Cheinmora, Damon Bundamarra, Troy Karadada, Ebonny Hassett and Tabitha Evans, can pilot vessels to carry on the Wundaagu (saltwater) healthy country work. Wunambal Gaambera people are saltwater and freshwater people. Their ancestors traveled the waters by raft and […]
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Monitoring microplastics on WA beaches
Kambarang turned up the heat for AUSMAP’s Microplastics Training Day in Fremantle in October! AUSMAP, the Australian Microplastic Assessment Project, is a collaborative citizen science project that uses a standardised method to assess and quantify microplastic pollution on our shorelines. To support the collection of microplastics data, AUSMAP trains leaders across the country using a […]
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See the winning image from Wildlife Photographer of the Year
A rare image of a grouper mating frenzy won French photographer Laurent Ballesta the contest’s top honour. Laurent Ballesta became the overall winner of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 by capturing an explosion of new life deep underwater. Two groupers exit a cloud of eggs and sperm in the Fakarava Atoll, part of […]
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Where have all the penguins gone?
My name is Hannah, and I am a Youth Board member from Millennium Kids. When I went to Penguin Island with my family in May 2021, we couldn’t find any penguins in places we had seen them before, so I asked why at the information desk, and they told me that the penguin population had […]
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Priority coastal and marine issues
To best support the needs of marine and coastal care groups, the Network is seeking expressions of interest to establish a list of priority issues for WA local organizations in the fields of marine and coastal management. The objective of this call is to draw up a list of coastal and marine issues to assist the Network […]