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Fauna and Flora of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
Contents
- VERSO
- INTRODUCTION
- OBLIGATIONS TO RARE AND THREATENED SPECIES
- TERMINOLOGY: ADVERSE IMPACTS, EFFECTS & HUMAN RELATED THREATS
- SPECIES IN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF WORLD HERITAGE AREA
- DISCUSSION
- ELEMENTS FOR PRIORITISING WORK PROGRAM
- THE SPECIES CONSERVATION PROGRAM OF THE GBRMPA
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- REFERENCES
- APPENDIX 1 IUCN listing of major categories of threat
- APPENDIX 2 Listed marine species
- APPENDIX 3 Species of special interest
- APPENDIX 4 Other species of conservation concern
- APPENDIX 5 Island Flora and Fauna
- FIGURE 1. Map of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Boundaries
- TABLE 1. Threatened species known to occur in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and listed under the Bonn Convention or CITES agreement (includes explanatory notes)
- TABLE 2. Birds known to occur in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and listed under the JAMBA and CAMBA agreements
- TABLE 3. Threatened species known to occur in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and listed by the IUCN Red Data Books or under Queensland or Commonwealth legislation
- TABLE 4. Conservation status suggested by Pogonoski et al. (2002) for syngnathids found in the Great Barrier Reef
- TABLE 5. Conservation status suggested by Pogonoski et al. (2002) for sharks and rays found in the Great Barrier Reef
- TABLE 6. Conservation status suggested by Pogonoski et al. (2002) for bony fish found in the Great Barrier Reef
- TABLE 7. ‘Vulnerable’ marine macroalgae in the Great Barrier Reef as derived from a national assessment by Cheshire et al. (2000)
- TABLE 8. ‘Vulnerable with a narrow range’ marine macroalgae in the Great Barrier Reef as derived from a national assessment by Chesire et al. (2000)
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