Coral Sea

The Solution: The World's Largest Park

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In 2007, Global Ocean Legacy, a project of the Pew Environment Group, identified the Coral Sea as one of a handful of places on Earth where a large, no-take oceanic park could be created and effectively managed.
Since then the Pew Environment Group has been joined by Australian conservation and heritage partners to call for the establishment of an Australian Coral Sea Heritage Park.

If successful, a Coral Sea Heritage Park would be the largest park of its kind anywhere in the world, on land or sea. It would provide a safe haven for the area’s majestic wildlife -- whales, manta rays, oceanic sharks and other large predatory fish – and its beautiful reefs, islets and sandy cays.

It would honour those who fought and died in the Battle of the Coral Sea.

It would protect the shipwrecks and lighthouses that distinguish our civilian maritime history.

Please join us in calling for a Coral Sea Heritage Park that can be protected now and for future generations.

Resources

An Australian Coral Sea Heritage Park (PDF) - Comprehensive background on the Coral Sea submission.

Map of Proposed Australian Coral Sea Heritage Park (PDF)