enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Great Barrier Reef Marine Park - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef_Marine_Park

    The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) is responsible for the care and protection of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park.It uses a range of tools to manage the marine park including Acts and Regulations, zoning plan, plans of management, traditional owner agreements, partnerships, stewardship and best practice, education, research and monitoring and reporting.

  3. Environmental threats to the Great Barrier Reef - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_threats_to...

    On 31 January 2014, the GBRMPA issued a dumping permit that will allow three million cubic metres of sea bed from Abbot Point, north of Bowen, to be transported and unloaded in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Potential significant harms have been identified in relation to dredge spoil and the process of churning up the sea ...

  4. Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_on_the_Great...

    The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 is one of the major laws governing the management of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. [33] When it was passed, the management of tourism was seen as an important issue. [34] Ros Kelly proposed a 1% tax on tourism activities in the GBR in 1991, but this was criticised by Queensland's premier, Wayne ...

  5. Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_Protection_and...

    The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park; Nuclear actions (including uranium mining and building of nuclear waste repositories) [14] A water resource, in relation to coal seam gas development and large coal mining development. The list must be reviewed every five years, and the government can add new matters to this list by regulation.

  6. Marine Life Protection Act - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_Life_Protection_Act

    The SAT agreed to keep the answers confidential and established the procedure to do so. The SAT eventually got the necessary I.R.B. permit exemption although there remained a controversy of co-mingling information gathered before the conditional exemption was issued. Native Americans wanted to have a qualified Native American appointed to the SAT.

  7. Great Barrier Reef - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef

    On 31 January 2014, the GBRMPA issued a dumping permit that will allow three million cubic metres of sea bed from Abbot Point, north of Bowen, to be transported and unloaded in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Potential significant harms have been identified in relation to dredge spoil and the process of churning up the sea ...

  8. List of environmental laws by country - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_laws...

    Regulation No. 736 – "Regulations Regarding a Permit for the Use of Water Resources"; 23 December 2003; Regulation No. 779 – adopted 19 September 2006; "Procedures for the Extraction of Mineral Resources" Regulation No. 857 – "Regulations regarding Procedures for Ascertaining of Groundwater Resources and Criteria of Quality" 19 October 2004

  9. Lizard Island - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Island

    The island is also part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, administered jointly by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency. Permits are required for all manipulative research in the Lizard Island Group and the waters surrounding it. [citation needed]