Our petition

Petition in support of new Tasmanian marine parks

If you would like to do something for our struggling marine life sign the petition by going to the external site link we are currently using for the petition.

https://www.change.org/moremarineparks

To The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Assembly:

The petition of the undersigned being concerned citizens of Tasmania draws to the attention of the House to the Government’s policy of having a moratorium on new marine parks. We aks the Government to take the lead on creating new and meaningful marine parks.

The ocean is Tasmania’s biggest wilderness area and its very special even in international terms with many species found only in our waters.. The marine environment is under a lot of pressure, with major changes occurring now. We need to mark out special areas of underwater wilderness and protect them from their major threats. This will give them the extra resilience they need to weather these changes.

Marine parks have other benefits too. They are great sites for tourism, scientific study, education, recreation, as well as protecting rare plants and animals. They can also ‘reseed’ depleted area and provide benefits for fishing.

The Minister for Primary Industries and Water Guy Barnett, and the Minister for Parks Jacquie Petrusma need to engage in a sensible and bona fide debate with the Tasmanian community about protecting each unique part of our coastline (called a “bioregion”). That needs to include well protected from its major threats and big enough to protect the habitat that our special marine creatures rely upon.

The petitioners ask the House, regardless of the Members political affiliation, to take the lead on creating new and meaningful marine parks.