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In July 2026, I wrapped up my final fieldwork on the North Coast of Western Australia, marking the end of one year of data collection on people's attitudes and perceptions of protected area accessibility.

By Valeria Mendez Over the past two weeks, I conducted in-person surveys with visitors and long-term residents across Western Australia's coral coast. These conversations revealed consistent patterns in how people form emotional connections to marine landscapes. Participants spoke with genuine affection about these places and many of them also served as informal environmental historians, describing how places looked 5, 10, or even 20 years ago. They documented how post-pandem

Experts met on the 12th August in a symposium coordinated by the DBCA and AIMS to discuss the causes and consequences of WA's recent...

The last six months have seen a devastating mass bleaching event hit coral populations on Australia's eastern shores. Graeme contributed...

Premier's Science Fellows: With funding from the WA State Government we are starting up a new program, based in the Oceans Institute at...