Australia’s 44+ Commonwealth marine parks stretch across millions of hectares. Explore what’s inside them, the protections your support is strengthening, and what the 2026 Review could change for good.
Explore the Oceans You’re Protecting
See the marine parks your support is helping defend, mapped across Australia’s coastline.
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👆 Click the filter icon (top left) to explore wildlife habitats and marine park zones.
You’re helping end destructive fishing in protected waters
Thanks to donors like you, Greenpeace can investigate and expose the industrial fishing happening inside Australia’s marine parks, and push for the laws that will finally stop it.
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Bottom trawling
Your support is helping ban heavy nets from protected ocean floors.
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Longlining
You’re helping remove the hooks that catch turtles, sharks, and seabirds.
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The loophole
You’re helping close the zoning gaps that let extractive industries in.
Your support funds the investigation that holds the government to account, for every ocean, every species.
The once-in-a-decade review
This June, the Australian Government begins its formal review of the marine parks network. It happens every ten years. Thanks to your support, we are ready to push for three changes that could transform these parks for good.
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Expand protection into areas of high biodiversity, where the rarest species need the most room to recover and thrive.
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Remove the loopholes that let bottom trawling and longlining operate inside waters meant to protect the animals that live there.
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Connect our parks to new ocean sanctuaries beyond Australia’s borders under the Global Ocean Treaty, creating corridors that animals like the leatherback turtle actually need.
Together, we can turn the homes of turtles and sharks into the true sanctuaries they were always meant to be, and it starts with you.
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