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Interaction of coastal development with sea birds
Management Concern: Moderate
Adequacy of Information: Low
Summary extracts from Outlook Report 2009
- Twenty-two species of seabird breed on the Great Barrier Reef with serious declines in some populations.
- Increasing coastal development is resulting in the loss of both coastal habitats that support the Great Barrier Reef and connectivity between habitats.
What do we know?
Relevant pages from Outlook Online include:
- Status of Queensland seabirds
- Status of seabirds: evidence from State of the Reef Report
- Trends in seabird populations at Raine Island
- Birds of Michaelmas Cay
- Trends in seabird populations in the Swain Reefs
- Capricorn Bunker Group shearwaters and noddies
- Demographic and Reproductive Impacts on Seabirds
- Tourism impacts on seabirds A
- Tourism impacts on seabirds B
- Loss of coastal wetlands
- Clearing of wetlands
- Disturbance of shorebird roosting caused by development
Existing policies and management actions
- Seabirds in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
- Guidelines for Managing Visitation to Seabird Breeding Islands
- Coastal Bird Monitoring Strategy for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
[860KB] - Australia is a party to two migratory bird agreements, one with Japan and one with China
- Site specific management - Raine Island, Moulter Cay and MacLennan Cay
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Zoning Plan
- Coastal ecosystem protection
- State Coastal Management Plan 2002
- Regional coastal management plans
- Queensland's coast: managing its future: a position paper on coastal management in Queensland
- State development areas: Gladstone [1.0MB]
- State development areas: Townsville [3.73MB]
- State development areas: Abbot Point [0.8MB]
- Proposed development on Curtis Island [1.77MB]
Future management requirements
- Biodiversity strategy
- Draft Queensland Coastal Management Plan
Defined research questions
- What are the major threats to declining seabird populations in the far northern and southern Great Barrier Reef?
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