Satellite View of Shark Bay UNESCO World Heritage Site - Australia

Satellite View of Shark Bay UNESCO World Heritage Site - Australia

Handout satellite view, dated on November 26, 2025, shows the Shark Bay UNESCO World Heritage Site. Shark Bay, located on the western coast of Australia, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its exceptional natural beauty, including unique marine biodiversity and one of the world's most extensive seagrass beds. The site is globally significant for its ecological processes, geological formations, and as a habitat for threatened species such as dugongs and green turtles. These fragile ecosystems are highly sensitive to changes in water quality, sea temperature, and coastal development. This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, acquired on 26 November 2025, shows the striking coastal and marine features of Shark Bay in high resolution. The contrasting colours reveal shallow sandbanks, seagrass meadows, and hypersaline basins, as well as the arid terrestrial surroundings near Denham. Photo by European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery via ABACAPRESS.COM

Large-scale conservation project to restore marine environments in Australia's Sydney Harbour

STORY: Large-scale conservation project to restore marine environments in Australia's Sydney Harbour DATELINE: August 24, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:08 LOCATION: SYDNEY, Australia CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: various of sea environment (Source: Environment NSW)various of Sydneyvarious of divers working in ocean STORYLINE: The government of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has announced a 9.1 million Australian dollars (about 6.28 million U.S. dollars) initiative, which will seek to restore kelp forests and sea horse populations to the iconic Sydney Harbour. The investment would be delivered across three projects including installing living seawalls and replanting seagrass meadows and kelp forests, conducting a census of penguin populations that inhabit the harbour and assessing the habitat of seals in the harbour. More than 85 percent of people in NSW live within 50 km of the coast, and as such more than 50 percent of Sydney Harbour's shoreline is occupied by urban structures, and more than 142,0

AUSTRALIA-LARGEST PLANT-DISCOVERY

AUSTRALIA-LARGEST PLANT-DISCOVERY

(220603) -- CANBERRA, June 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo provided by Rachel Austin from the University of Western Australia on June 1, 2022 shows the Posidonia australis seagrass meadow in Shark Bay, Western Australia, Australia. Australian researchers have discovered the world's largest plant off the country's west coast. In a study published on Wednesday, researchers from Flinders University in South Australia (SA) and the University of Western Australia (UWA) revealed they have discovered a seagrass stretching 180 km in Western Australia's Shark Bay. The researchers sought to understand the diversity of seagrass meadows in Shark Bay using genetic tools and were surprised to discover it was one vast organism of the Posidonia australis species. They estimate that it is at least 4,500 years old. (University of Western Australia/Handout via Xinhua)