Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L01285:reg:9:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2022L01285
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 203661–204724

benefits to flow from community members engaging in citizen science concerning albatrosses and petrels. For example, a small, dedicated group has been conducting routine surveys of offshore seabird abundance in New South Wales waters for nearly 20 years (Gorta et al. 2019). This citizen science provides a long-term data set that has helped to assess whether the abundance of particular albatross and petrel populations foraging off south-eastern Australia has changed over time.
Many marine species have cultural significance to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. There is some evidence from Aboriginal language and history of a link to albatross and their breeding habitat in Tasmania. The Tasmanian Aboriginal people of the north-west region called Albatross Island tangatema and they may have visited the island by canoe in calm conditions when the journey between Hunter and Albatross Islands could be safely negotiated (Wastell et al. 2015) and the island has also been referred to as namanu rruni (Alderman 2018, pers. comm., 5 September 2018).