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Great Barrier Reef (GBR)
rezoning – our submissions and
lobbying with the World Wildlife
Fund (WWF) greatly assisted with
the increased protection of the
GBR from 4.5% to 33%
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Carried out water quality
sampling for the Great Barrier
Reef Marine Park Authority,
which contributed to the
formation of The GBR Water
Quality Protection Plan.
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MOU to protect Coral Sea Reefs –
signed by the tourism and
fishing industries, the
Memorandum Of Understanding
restricted fishing at sensitive
Coral Sea reefs and was the
first step in the current World
Wildlife Fund supported Save the
Coral Sea campaign.
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Initiated the creation and
implementation of what is now
recognized by the IWC as the
‘world’s best practice’ for
sustainable in-water whale
tourism -
www.reef.crc.org.au/discover/plantsanimals/pdf/Minke_Code.pdf
.
This Code Of Practice has been
used to develop similar
legislation in several other
countries (e.g Brasil and South
Africa).
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Involvement in local and global
climate change initiatives and
being chosen as the WWF’s
‘Witness to climate change
spokesman’, 2009
(http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/footprint/climate_carbon_energy/climate_agreement/news/?uNewsID=100920)
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Founder and former president of
the Low Isles Preservation
Society, which co-manages Low
Isles (the site of the world’s
first ever detailed study on
coral reef in 1928) with the
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park
Authority.
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Helped bring the award-winning
marine conservation NPO Reef
Check to Australia where John
held a position on the board of
directors for many years
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Our staff are active members of
many local tourism/conservation
advisory boards including
Tourism and Recreation Reef
Advisory Committee (TRRAC),
Local Marine Advisory Committees
(LMAC), Low Isles Preservation
Society (LIPS), Cod Hole and
Ribbon Reef Operators
Association (CHARRROA)) which
has contributed to the growth
and maintenance of a strong and
environmentally friendly tourism
industry for the Great Barrier
Reef
