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Interaction of catchment runoff with sea birds
Management Concern: Moderate
Adequacy of Information: Moderate
Summary extracts from Outlook Report 2009
- Twenty-two species of seabird breed on the Great Barrier Reef with serious declines in some populations.
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
- Loss of coastal wetlands
- Clearing of wetlands
- Disturbance of shorebird roosting caused by development
- Scientific consensus statement on water quality in the Great Barrier Reef
- Reef exposure to river contaminants ecosystem risk index
- Catchment influence on the Great Barrier Reef
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
- State Coastal Management Plan 2002
- Regional coastal management plans
- Improving water quality
- Coastal ecosystem protection
- Water Quality Guidelines for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
- Regional water quality improvement plans
- Queensland's coast: managing its future: a position paper on coastal management in Queensland
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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