Shark Bay Marine Park

Shark Bay Marine Park on the Coral Coast of Western Australia is Australia's largest marine embayment at a size of 748,735 hectares and covering 1500 kilometres of coastline. It is home to a myriad of aquatic wildlife including dolphins, dugongs, manta rays and turtles and some 17 species of mammals, 98 species of reptiles and amphibians and more than 230 species of birds. Approximately one eighth of the world's dugong population calls the Shark Bay Marine Park home.

Shark Bay Marine Park bay area boasts a dramatic and beautiful coastline, where rust red cliffs give way to pure white sandy beaches and the clear turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean.

The bay area's shallows support a diverse ecology of coral, hyper saline communities, mangroves and sea grass meadows.  In fact it has the largest area and largest number of sea grass species ever recorded in one place in the world.

Project Eden

Project Eden is a nationally significant conservation project aimed at rejuvenating the ecosystem and creating a safe haven for threatened native wildlife. The Department of Conservation and Environment has already eradicated foxes, is controlling cats and has reintroduced species such as woylies, malleefowl and greater bilby.

For more information on this project and Shark Bay Marine Park, visit the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) website or call +61 08 9948 1208.