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Ocean Ark AllianceFebruary 18, 2019 at 1:36pm

No ifs, no butts.

Cigarette butts are the ocean's single largest source of trash

When we hear "ocean pollution", we think of straws, bottles, and other plastic trash but cigarette filters are a far more harmful form of waste.

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Ocean Ark Alliance shared Fight For Our Reef's post.February 15, 2019 at 11:27pm

Everyone’s understandably focused on the horrific impact on farms & livestock after Qld floods. Now let’s start talking about the Reef. Once we boasted seeing its architectural wonder from Outer Space. Now, from the same distant vantage point, we can witness its demise...

Fight For Our Reef

The sediment and fertiliser pollution into our Reef in recent heavy rainfall has been so bad, it's visible from space (see BOM video in comments).

Sediment and fertiliser runoff from heavy rainfall is a threat to inshore coral reefs and seagrass meadows of the Great Barrier Reef. These ecosystems are critical habitats for threatened dugongs, turtles and many juvenile fish species. Nutrient pollution of the Reef’s waters is leading to increased phytoplankton, which drives massive outbreaks of the coral-eating Crown-of-Thorns Starfish.

Stay tuned as we are working on this issue this year.

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Ocean Ark Alliance shared Fourth Element OceanPositive's post.February 15, 2019 at 11:10pm

Now we’re talking...

Fourth Element OceanPositive

The legislation would establish fines and makes it a misdemeanor for "any person who knowingly captures, takes, possesses, abuses or entangles any shark, whether alive or dead, or kills any shark, within state marine waters."

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IN LOVING MEMORY OF ROB STEWART, OUR FRIEND, COLLEAGUE, DIVE BUDDY

Ocean Ark Alliance

OAA’s mission is to nurture, inspire and create a deeper appreciation of some of the most wondrous, yet fragile, ecosystems on our planet through educational outreach. Our current focus is coral reefs and shark conservation.

Our Project and Initiatives …

OAA offers its Development Partners access to and license-free use of an ever-growing media collection of globally significant marine digital stills, scientific data and video libraries, for a wide variety of selected non-profit uses in marine education, science and conservation projects.

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Ocean Ark Alliance (OAA) is a Not For Profit organisation based in Australia dedicated to supporting, sponsoring and promoting marine education and the conservation of oceanic environments. OAA is part of a global network of Development Partners that includes world-renowned marine scientists, researchers, undersea explorers, multi-award-winning film-makers and photographers, marine artists and media specialists, educators, conservation organisations and a diverse range of business organisations.

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