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Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority :: Further information about protected species in the Marine Park

Further information about protected species in the Marine Park

Dugong

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SIRENIAN is a listserver, which serves as an information avenue for people interested in manatees and dugongs from around the world. To subscribe, send mail to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.TAMU.EDU with the command SUBSCRIBE SIRENIAN

Websites

Environmental Protection Agency/Queensland Parks and Wildlife

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

IUCN Sirenia Specialist Group (dugongs and manatees)

Related Links

  • Queensland’s Nature Conservation (Dugong) Conservation Plan 1999

  • Research Publication #58 A Dugong Research Strategy for the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and Hervey Bay

  • Research Publication #66 A Review of Water Quality Issues Influencing Habitat Quality in Dugong Protection Areas

  • Research Publication #67 Dugongs, Boats, Dolphins and Turtles in the Townsville-Cardwell Region and Recommendations for a Boat Traffic Management Plan for the Hinchinbrook Dugong Protection Area

  • Research Publication #70 Shark Control Records Hindcast Serious Decline in Dugong Numbers off the Urban Coast of Queensland & Dugong Distribution and Abundance in the Southern Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and Hervey Bay: Results of an Aerial Survey in October–December 1999

  • Research Publication #72 Seagrass and Marine Resources in the Dugong Protection Areas of Upstart Bay, Newry Region, Sand Bay, Llewellyn Bay, Ince Bay and the Clairview Region April/May 1999 and October 1999

  • Research Publication #85 Procedures for the Salvage and Necropsy of the Dugong (Dugong dugon) - Second Edition 

  • Turtle and Dugong Conservation Strategy for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

  • Shoalwater Bay (Dugong) Plan of Management

  • Reef Research Information Sheet No. 2 - The status of dugongs on the Great Barrier Reef and the southern coast of Queensland

  • GBRMPA’s Research priorities

  • Dugong Action Plan

Marine turtles

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C-TURTLE is a marine turtle listserver, which serves as an information avenue for people interested in sea turtles from around the world. To subscribe, the following is sent to listserv@lists.ufl.edu, Subject "Subscribe", Message "SIGNON CTURTLE"

Websites

Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and The Arts
Queensland Environmental Protection Agency
Indian Ocean:South-East Asian Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding
International Marine Turtle Newsletter
IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group
North Australian Land and Sea Management Alliance
Seaturtle Organisation
USA National Marine Fisheries Service
Western Cape York Turtle Conservation Project

Related Links

Other Information

  • Bjorndal, K.A. 1995, Biology and Conservation of Sea Turtles, Revised Edition, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 415p.

  • Bomford, M. and Caughley, J. eds. 1996. Sustainable use of wildlife by Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.  216 pp.

  • Carr, A.F. 1967, So Excellent a Fishe: a natural history of sea turtles, Scribner, New York.

  • Dobbs, K. 2002. Marine turtle conservation in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia. In Kinan, I. (ed.)  Proceedings of the Western Pacific Sea Turtle Cooperative Research and Management Workshop. February 5-8, 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council. 300pp.

  • FitzSimmons, N.N., Farrington, L.W., McCann, M.J., Moritz, C. and Limpus, C.J. 2003. Genetic identification of Australian marine turtle stocks and their representation at feeding grounds and in regional harvests.  Report to Environment Australia, Canberra. Natural Heritage Trust, Coast and Clean Seas Initiative.

  • James, R. 1994, Proceedings of the Australian Marine Turtle Conservation Workshop, 14-17 November 1990, Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage and Australian Nature Conservation Agency, 208p.

  • Kennett, R., Robinson, C.J. Kiessling, I., Yunupingu, Djawa., Munungurritj. Mr., and Yunupingu, Djalalingba. 2004. Indigenous initiatives for co-management of Miyapunu/Sea turtle.  Ecological Management & Restoration 5(3): 159-166.

  • Kinan, I (editor) 2002. Proceedings of the Western Pacific Sea Turtle Cooperative Research and Management Workshop. February 5-8, 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.   Honolulu, HI: Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council. 300pp.

  • Limpus, C.J., Miller, J.D., Parmenter, C.J., Reimer, D., McLachlan, N, and Webb,R. 1992. Migration of Green (chelonia mydas) and Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) turtles to and from Australian rookeries.  Wildlife Research  19:347-358.

  • Lutz, P.L and Musick, J.A. 1997, The Biology of Sea Turtles, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida 432p.

  • National Research Council, 1990, Decline of the Sea Turtles. Causes and Prevention, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 259p.

  • Queensland Department of Environment and Heritage, 1994, A matter of time - Sea turtles of Queensland, Brisbane.

  • Ross, H., Innes, J., George, M., and Gorman, K. 2004.  Traditional Owner aspirations toward co-operative management of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area: community case studies.  CRC Reef Research Centre Technical Report No. 56, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

  • Whiting, S.D. and Miller, J.D. 1998. Short term foraging ranges of adult green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Journal of Herpetology 32:330-337.

Whales and Dolphins

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MARMAM is an edited e-mail discussion list which focuses on marine mammal research and conservation. Instructions for subscribing can be found at http://whitelab.biology.dal.ca/marmam.htm.

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