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The Kimberley Coast: August 2012
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Thursday, August 9, 2012. Fighting for the whales. Flip Prior, The West. Babies breaching," someone shouted, and everyone rushed to the side of Sea Shepherd's Steve Irwin vessel, binoculars at the ready under the black Jolly Roger flag flapping in the breeze. In the distance, several kilometres from the Dampier Peninsula coastline, an adult whale slapped her tail and blew plumes of water as her young calf playfully breached beside her, silvery in the early morning sun. For former Greens Senator Bob Brown...
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The Kimberley Coast: April 2013
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Monday, April 1, 2013. Coastal activity survey to include people ‘head count’ too. Science Network Western Australia. A Murdoch University marine scientist has just commenced an aerial survey of the western Kimberley coast. It will comprise one of the studies intended to inform the management of the new marine parks network. She says people counts are frequently neglected in ecological surveys. She says the technique has been extensively used in fisheries surveys. 8220;So for example I shoot a photo of t...
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The Kimberley Coast: Coastal activity survey to include people ‘head count’ too
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Monday, April 1, 2013. Coastal activity survey to include people ‘head count’ too. Science Network Western Australia. A Murdoch University marine scientist has just commenced an aerial survey of the western Kimberley coast. It will comprise one of the studies intended to inform the management of the new marine parks network. She says people counts are frequently neglected in ecological surveys. She says the technique has been extensively used in fisheries surveys. 8220;So for example I shoot a photo of t...
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The Kimberley Coast: November 2012
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Kimberley corals offer hope for reefs. Flip Prior, The West Australian. November 21, 2012, 5:30 am. Marine scientist Ali McCarthy popped out of the turquoise water at Shell Island, grinning around her snorkel and holding a purple-tipped staghorn coral - one of many colourful reef specimens turning the shallows near Cygnet Bay into an underwater wonderland. James Brown, a third-generation pearler and marine biologist, established KMRS in 2009 to give students low-cost and eas...
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The Kimberley Coast: January 2013
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Monday, January 28, 2013. National Marine Parks Protect Horizontal Waterfalls. Rebecca Trigger, The West Australian. January 28, 2013, 9:39 am. The Kimberley's famous Horizontal Falls site will be protected through the creation of a 160sqkm national and 3000sqkm marine parks, the State Government said today. But existing iron ore mines on Koolan and Cockatoo islands will continue to operate. The park will protect coral reefs, dolphins, and mangrove systems, he said. Final borders will be determined after...
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The Kimberley Coast: July 2012
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Monday, July 30, 2012. Appeals committee appointed for Browse. Minister for Environment; Water. Minister appoints Dr Roy Green to investigate Browse appeals. Former CSIRO chief executive to prepare report for the Minister. Environment Minister Bill Marmion has appointed Dr Roy Green to investigate more than 200 appeals received regarding the Environmental Protection Authority’s report on the Browse Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Precinct at James Price Point. Minister’s office - 6552 6800. Links to this post.
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The Kimberley Coast: Kimberley corals offer hope for reefs
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Kimberley corals offer hope for reefs. Flip Prior, The West Australian. November 21, 2012, 5:30 am. Marine scientist Ali McCarthy popped out of the turquoise water at Shell Island, grinning around her snorkel and holding a purple-tipped staghorn coral - one of many colourful reef specimens turning the shallows near Cygnet Bay into an underwater wonderland. James Brown, a third-generation pearler and marine biologist, established KMRS in 2009 to give students low-cost and eas...
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The Kimberley Coast: June 2012
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012. James Price Point a nursery for Humpback whales: Independent study. Humpback whales were observed giving birth in the coastal corridor off James Price Point, where Woodside is proposing to build a gas industrial complex, an independent land-based whale survey has found. 8220;We also observed a significant reduction in the number of whale sightings when operational drilling rigs were present at James Price Point. These findings raise serious questions about the potential impa...
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The Kimberley Coast: September 2012
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Thursday, September 13, 2012. Broome's quivering red sea. 13 Sept. 2013. Thousands of big, quivering red jellyfish created a spectacle on Cable Beach yesterday. Marine scientist James Brown, of Cygnet Bay, arrived with his sons about 6.15am to find the jellyfish, which had washed up overnight. They were very fresh, being pushed up by little swells that were rolling in," Mr Brown said. What we want to do now is find out how widespread they are - whether they stretch up the coast or not.". Blooms were then...
