National codes of practice have been developed for the sustainable management of dugong and marine tourism in Australia.

Specific Codes of Conduct have been developed for the following:

• Aircraft approach distances to dugongs
• Beach-based marine turtle tourism (including general beach conditions during turtle breeding season, interactions with nesting marine turtles, interactions with marine turtle hatchlings, guidelines for photography and filming of nesting and hatchling marine turtles)
• Vessel-based dugong and marine turtle tourism (including vessels operating in dugong and marine turtle habitats, vessel interaction with dugongs, vessel interaction with marine turtles)
  
• In-water marine turtle tourism (swimming, SCUBA diving and snorkelling).   
  

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Citation and/or URL

Code of Practice for the Sustainable Management of Dugong and Marine Turtle Tourism in Australia.  Submitted to DEH on 31 Oct 2005 - Towards Sustainable Dugong and Turtle Tourism Project, Phase II.  Accessed from www.dugongturtletourism.org  

Spatial Coverage

Australia

Temporal Coverage

Not applicable

Update Frequency

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Other Information

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