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indirectly through changes in behaviour. Human presence may result in changes to wildlife behaviour such as nesting, breeding, feeding and resting or may damage fragile reef marine environments. Examples of habitats and species vulnerable to human disturbance include reef habitats, penyu (marine turtles) and cucut (sharks).
Activities understood to change the behaviour of wildlife in ways that can have negative impacts
(such as shark feeding) may require monitoring and management responses under this plan.

    2.5           Pulu Keeling National Park
Pulu Keeling National Park covers the entirety of the remote and largely untouched North Keeling Island. The park also extends into the marine environment around 1.5 km seaward from the island's shore, protecting the fringing reef.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park surrounds and adjoins the marine zone of Pulu Keeling National Park (Figure 2.6), integrating this long-established national park into a wider seascape protection system. Providing contiguous protection across marine and terrestrial environments is important for the seabirds, turtles and other species that rely on both of these environments to survive. Parks Australia will work to ensure management of both parks is streamlined and integrated for the benefit of park users and other stakeholders and to enhance the effectiveness of management activities.
         Image: Burung maen-maen (red-footed booby) (sula sula) chicks resting in Pulu Keeling            National Park (Matthew Anderson)

    2.6           Management of values, pressures and drivers
The Director will need to make decisions about what activities can occur in the marine parks and the actions to manage them. This will involve the Director making decisions that carefully balance the need to protect natural, cultural and social and economic values of marine parks with enabling use and managing pressures.
In making these decisions, the Director will carefully consider the impacts and risks to natural, cultural and social and economic values for Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park. The Director will also consider any positive impacts associated with allowing an activity and ensure that activities are undertaken in a manner that minimises negative impacts. Some examples of the types of values and pressures the Director may consider in their decision making are outlined in Section 2.3 (Values of Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park) and Section 2.4 (Pressures and drivers in Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park).
As understanding of marine park values improves, the Director may make new information about values and pressures available on the Parks Australia website.
Figure 2.6 Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park and Pulu Keeling National Park boundary

      3.0 Management programs and actions
Image: Hawksbill turtle (Rohan Newton)

  3.1            Management programs, goals, desired outcomes and actions
The Director will act to protect Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park from pressures, minimise damage to values and improve the resilience of the marine environment. The