Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L01047:reg:27:p5
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2018L01047
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 27 (pt 5/5)
Character Range: 102963–104409

an excellent example of a
school-based initiative that improves understanding of environmental risks and solutions. The program sees students team up with others in their community to actively participate in activities aimed at improving catchments, water quality, sustainability and Great Barrier Reef health. This includes environmental and sustainability projects such as cleaning up local beaches and recycling waste and litter. Similarly, 17 councils between Bundaberg and Cooktown in the Reef Guardian Councils program undertake a range of projects along the Great Barrier Reef catchment that engage the community on waste management, illegal dumping and marine debris clean-ups.

         Reef Guardians in action. Image: Kate Finch

         33  /  Threat Abatement Plan

          Community action in the form of ghost net art has proven to be an effective means of alerting the public to the damage that discarded, lost and abandoned fishing gear causes in the marine environment. The former non-government organisation GhostNets Australia sponsored ghost net art workshops in Indigenous communities between 2009 and 2013. As a result, Indigenous ghost net art now appears regularly in galleries and art exhibitions around Australia and internationally.

          The Erub Arts Ghost Net Gang at Seu Cay (eastern Torres Strait) with Emarr Totol, made from ghost net material. Image: Erub Arts, photographer Lynnette Griffiths