Much-needed work around ghost nets in the Arafura and East Timor Seas continues at NAMRA

In lieu of the recent decision to cease funding to the award-winning conservation program GhostNets Australia, the need to inform the wider community about the value of efforts to clean up and protect local waters becomes distinctly apparent. Another program concerned with the health of North Australia’s marine ecosystems – the North Australia Marine Research Alliance (NAMRA) – builds research capacity relevant to the scale and variety of challenges to northern waters; challenges that are overwhelmingly yet to be met or even understood. NAMRA is a major strategic program under an [...]