From surfing came a love of the ocean
Brett Fenton, now a global leader in marine conservation, developed a lifelong love of the ocean through a childhood up and down the New South Wales coast surfing
Connection with nature turns hope into action
According to marine conservation leader Brett Fenton, hope is important, but not enough. But having a deep connection to the environment that we live in, can help us turn hope into action.
Encounter with a seal in Sydney Harbour
Ocean lover Brett Fenton describes a very special encounter with a seal in the heart of Sydney Harbour
Project Restore: Bringing marine life back into Sydney Harbour
Project restore is a leader globally in moving beyond habitat-by-habitat marine restoration to provide an example of how multi-habitat restoration can be conducted at seascape scale.
Living Seawalls for Sydney Harbour
In Sydney Harbour, certainly upriver, nearly 100% of the natural shoreline has been transformed to artificial shorelines. This remarkable restoration project seeks to bring natural shoreline and marine biodiversity back
Saving White’s Seahorse
An incredible project in the heart of Sydney harbour aims to save one of the world's two endangered species of Seahorse - the beautiful, tiny, White's seahorse.
Restoring Sydney Harbour’s seagrass
This unique marine restoration project is working to restore Sydney Harbour's beautiful seagrass meadows - crucial habitat for marine biodiversity
Sydney Harbour’s marine life makes a comeback
The marine life of the Sydney Harbour got to a low in the 1960s and 1970s, but we've seen an improvement in the last 50 years, with a growing abundance of marine life in the harbour.
Sydney Harbour – a river valley flooded in the last ice age
What is now Sydney Harbour, 12,000 years ago was a river valley that was drowned. Water flooded in and the sea level rose 120 metres
Sydney Harbour’s extraordinary marine biodiversity
In and around Sydney Harbour, we have over 600 unique species of fish. To put that in context, that's the same biodiversity as the entirety of the European continent.
Children in Nature
Naturalist Kate Eccles reflects on the importance of childhood connection with nature
From Bulldozers to Bush Regeneration
The Mosman Parks and Bushland Association was formed in the 1964 by residents protesting against a road being bulldozed through natural bushland in Mosman. This group became the birthplace for Australia's bush regeneration movement.