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Tasmanian Management Macquarie Island - Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service
Macquarie Island is located south of Tasmania and is part of this island state of Australia. On 3 December 1997, Macquarie Island was listed as a World Heritage Area. It is the second World Heritage Area designated in Tasmania (the first being the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area that covers 21% of the State). The Macquarie Island World Heritage Area was listed for its outstanding geological significance on a world scale. - top - Macquarie Island Draft Management Plan 2003
The Macquarie Island Nature Reserve and World Heritage Area Draft Management Plan 2003 can be obtained from the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. - top - Australian Management Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve
The Australian Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (known as the HIMI) lies in a remote and stormy part of the Southern Ocean. The HIMI is near the conspicuous meeting-point of Antarctic and temperate ocean waters. The islands were unknown to humanity until the 19th century. The HIMI is an external territory of Australia in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean at around 53° 05' S and 73° 30' E. It lies approximately 1500 km north of Antarctica and over 4000 km south-west of Australia. - top - Macquarie Island Research Station
For over 50 years, Australia has operated a research station at the northern end of Macquarie Island. The station (built in 1948) is home to over 40 people during summer and around 20 through winter. A wide variety of research is carried out on the island including biology, botany, auroral physics, meteorology and medical research. - top - Sub-Antarctic Fur Seal and Southern Elephant Seal Recovery Plan
The sub-Antarctic Fur Seal and Southern Elephant Seal are carnivorous marine mammals of the cold Southern Ocean. In Australian waters, both species breed and haul out mainly on Macquarie and Heard Islands, but individuals range widely and occasionally reach the beaches of Tasmania and the Australian mainland. Both species are listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), triggering the preparation of this recovery plan, which is set out in accordance with Part 13, Division 5 of the EPBC Act. Background information on the biology, population status and threats to the sub-Antarctic Fur Seal and the Southern Elephant Seal can be found at http://www.deh.gov.au
- top - International Organisations Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (known as CCAMLR) is located in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. The Commission administers the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. CCAMLR was established to conserve and regulate harvesting of marine living resources in the Southern Ocean below the Antarctic Convergence. - top - Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels
The Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (known as ACAP), is a multilateral agreement which seeks to conserve albatrosses and petrels by coordinating international activity to mitigate known threats to albatross and petrel populations. ACAP has been developed under the auspices of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (or the CMS). - top - Convention on Migratory Species
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (also known as CMS or Bonn Convention) aims to conserve terrestrial, marine and avian migratory species throughout their range. It is an intergovernmental treaty, concluded under the aegis of the United Nations Environment Programme, concerned with the conservation of wildlife and habitats on a global scale - top - International Whaling Commission
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was set up under the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling which was signed in Washington DC on 2nd December 1946. The purpose of the Convention is to provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry. The main duty of the IWC is to keep under review and revise as necessary the measures laid down in the Schedule to the Convention which govern the conduct of whaling throughout the world. In addition, the Commission encourages, co-ordinates and funds whale research, publishes the results of scientific research and promotes studies into related matters such as the humaneness of the killing operations. - top - Antarctic Treaty System Antarctic Treaty System
The Antarctic Treaty was signed in Washington on 1 December 1959. The Antarctic Treaty, which applies to the area south of 60° South latitude, is surprisingly short, but remarkably effective. Through this agreement, the countries active in Antarctica consult on the uses of a whole continent, with a commitment that it should not become the scene or object of international discord.
The Antarctic Treaty System (known as the ATS) consists of a number of separate international instruments and their associated measures including: the Antarctic Treaty (1961); the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora (1964); the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (1972); the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (1981); the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (1991) (the Madrid Protocol).
With its origins in the 1988 Convention for the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resource Activities (known as CRAMRA, this convention pre-dates the Antarctic Treaty) has been the Madrid Protocol. The Madrid Protocol entered into force on 14 January 1998 and it codified and made legally binding a number of environmental protection measures through 27 Articles and five Annexes (Annex I - Environmental Impact Assessment, Annex II - Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora, Annex III - Waste Disposal and Waste Management, Annex IV - Prevention of Marine Pollution, Annex V - Area Protection and Management). - top - Handbook of the Antarctic Treaty System
The Handbook of the Antarctic Treaty System reproduces material with respect to the Antarctic Treaty System (known as the ATS), including the Antarctic Treaty itself, the Protocol on Environment Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (known as the Madrid Protocol), the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora; the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Seals; the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources; and other measures [or recommendations] in furtherance of the principles and objectives of the Antarctic Treaty. Refer to the weblink titled: Antarctic Treaty System. - top - Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty
The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (known as the Madrid Protocol) was adopted in 1991 in response to proposals that the wide range of provisions relating to protection of the Antarctic environment should be harmonised in a comprehensive and legally binding form. The Madrid Protocol is part of the Antarctic Treaty System (known as the ATS) and it draws on, and updates, the Agreed Measures as well as subsequent Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting recommendations relating to protection of the environment. Refer to the weblink titled: Antarctic Treaty System. - top - Antarctic Treaty Secretariat
The Antarctic Treaty Secretariat office is situated in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The office provides support to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative and the Environment Protection Committee meetings in one of the 29 countries involved, as well as maintaining data bases and archives. - top - Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals
The Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals is part is part of the Antarctic Treaty System. The convention entered into force on March 11 1978. The objective of the Convention is to promote and achieve the protection, scientific study, and rational use of Antarctic seals, and to maintain a satisfactory balance within the ecological system of Antarctica. - top -
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