Director of the Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation nonprofit marine research group Trevor Long said plastic pollution was proving to be a major environmental issue and the ban was a "great initiative." "We see first-hand the effects of marine debris and plastics are having on marine wildl...
Although wreck sites within South Australia are the initiative’s primary focus, a number are in other Australian states, as well as overseas. For example, the wreck of HMS Buffalo, the flagship of the first colonization fleet that landed at Holdfast Bay in 1836, is located at Mercury Bay ...
We acknowledge the HEAL (Healthy Environments And Lives) National Research Network, which receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Special Initiative in Human Health and Environmental Change (Grant No. 2008937). The authors acknowledge Aus Industry and BioPak Pty ...
"Research has shown that more than 200 species are known to be at risk from eating plastic, and 55 percent of the world's seabirds, including two species found on Henderson Island, are at risk from marine debris."