Management Concern: Low

Adequacy of Information: Good

Summary extracts from Outlook Report 2009

• Beaches are an important part of the coastal zone, especially as nesting grounds for seabirds and marine turtles. They also have an important recreational role for visitors to the Great Barrier Reef.
  
• Most of the routine defence training activities carried out in the Great Barrier Reef have negligible impacts. Individual high impact activities are carefully managed and confined to specific localised areas, and limited to a few weeks per year.

What do we know?

Relevant pages from Outlook Online include:

• Beaches and tidal flats
  
• Coastal erosion
  
• Coastal processes
• Defence force training 

Existing policies and management actions

• Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan
• Environmental Impact Assessment
  
• Plans of Management
  
• State Coastal Management Plan 2002
  
• Coastal Ecosystem Management Position Paper

Future management requirements

• Draft Queensland Coastal Management Plan
  
• Biodiversity strategy

Defined research questions

• There are currently no defined research questions for this topic. Research questions will be developed, giving priority to interactions/issues that are of most concern to management.

Related information

• Current Research and Monitoring