National Parks/Marine Parks

From ABC news today, green supporters of marine parks should read the report

Parks no sanctuary

He says Northern Australia's extensive system of national parks has not offered much protection.

"We used to think conservation would work if you set aside large areas for national parks and that the biodiversity in those parks would maintain itself; that's clearly not the case," Professor Woinarski said.

"Our results are showing that you really do have to intensively manage and manage in a really targeted way if those national parks are to maintain their biodiversity."

He says the national parks do not offer much protection because they are subjected to many of the same threats to biodiversity as are occurring in northern Australia outside parks.