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integrated for the benefit of park users and other stakeholders and to enhance the effectiveness of management activities.

     1.            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 Christmas Island 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. The types of values and pressures the Director may consider in their decision making are outlined in Section 2.3 (Values of Christmas Island Marine Park) and Section 2.4 (Pressures and drivers in Christmas Island 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 2.4 Map demonstrating how Christmas Island Marine Park intersects with Christmas Island National Park, the shoreline and the port area

      3.0 Management programs and actions

Image: Christmas Island coral (Udo Van Dongen)

   1.            Management programs, goals, desired outcomes and actions

The Director will act to protect Christmas Island Marine Park from pressures, minimise damage to values and improve the resilience of the marine environment. The programs and actions set out in Table 3.1 may need to be adapted as new information and approaches become available. This will occur in consultation with the community advisory committee and other stakeholders.

The desired outcomes set out in Table 3.1 indicate where the Director will focus monitoring efforts and what impacts are sought from management actions.

Table 3.1 Management programs, goals, outcomes and actions
Vision               Healthy and thriving marine environments for future generations
Objectives                                1.        To protect and conserve biodiversity and other natural and cultural values.
                                          2.        To provide for ecologically sustainable use that supports positive social and economic outcomes.
                     Science, monitoring and management effectiveness

                     Protection, resilience and adaptation
Management programs
                     Visitor use and communication

                     Community and stakeholder benefits and engagement

Goal                 Improve understanding of marine species, habitats and ecosystems and associated pressures, resilience and changes.                                                                           Reduce pressures and the impacts of environmental changes on marine species, habitats and ecosystems                     Enhance visitor appreciation, understanding and sustainable use of the park                                              Engage with and support social and economic benefits for the community and stakeholders

                                    * Diverse corals continue to inhabit the fringing reef ecosystem and support characteristic species.
                                    * Pelagic species diversity and abundance is maintained