Australia is home to the most incredible ocean wildlife on earth, but many of our species are threatened or endangered. Our threatened marine life like our turtles, whales and sharks need our help.
Australia’s oceans are some of the richest and most diverse on our blue planet.
Global studies have revealed that our northern oceans are some of the last remaining healthy tropical seas in the world. In our cool southern oceans, an incredible 80% of the marine species there occurs nowhere else on Earth.
This means that if we lose them from our waters, they are lost from the world forever.
suffered from historical hunting and capture in fishing gear. Today, many species of seabirds, turtles, sharks and marine mammals are legally recognised as threatened – their future at risk. We must protect them from overfishing, pollution and climate change.
Help us protect the precious threatened and endangered animals in Australia’s oceans.
Australian sea lions are a type of seal that are native only to our shores.
Dugongs are shy, elusive marine mammals that depend on healthy seagrass meadows for their diet.
Dugong populations have declined globally. We have a global obligation to conserve this species.
15 species of dolphins and one species of porpoise live in Australian waters.
Plastic pollution, industrialisation, shark nets and commercial fishing are threats to dolphins.
Hammerhead sharks are an iconic species inhabiting Australia’s waters but they are under threat.
To save them, we must implement stronger levels of protection for them and reduce fishing pressure.
Identified as a new species in 2005, the snubfin dolphin is Australia’s only native dolphin.
Southern bluefin tuna are ‘critically endangered’ yet rampant fishing of this species continues.
Population levels are down to 5% of original, pre-fishing levels - urgent action is required.
Industrial shipping, plastic pollution and illegal hunting threaten our whales.
These threats risk a future in which whales are just a memory.
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