Islands in ISOLATION

摘要

How do you plan marine parks and reserves along a vast stretch of Western Australia's coastline that has not been comprehensively surveyed? That was the dilemma that faced marine conservation planners from the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) when they were given the task of recommending a network of marine parks and reserves in the Pilbara and lower west Kimberley (Eighty Mile Beach) region (see 'Pilbara and Eighty Mile Beach: multiple objectives, one marine planning process', LANDSCOPE, Autumn 2008).