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Where River Meets Sea By Co-operative Research Centre for Coastal Zone, Estuary and Waterway Management |
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Exploring Australia's Estuaries (Preface). Australia has over 1000 estuaries, each a special and dynamic system. Just over half of Australia's estuaries remain in near-pristine condition. Most of these are smaller tidal systems along the far northern coastline. The majority of larger river systems and most estuaries associated with population centres have been degraded by human activities. Decisions about the use and management of our estuaries are made every day at a local level. This handbook aims to enhance estuary literacy among Australians, building our knowledge and interest in championing the cause of estuary protection and management. Importantly, this book hopes to dispel the myth of the 'away' place. What runs off our catchments, flows through our rivers and is flushed down drains from our everyday activities ends up in our estuaries. The challenge is to do whatever we can in our everyday activities to protect the health of the estuaries where we live, work and play. The book is lavishly illustrated with colour photographs, conceptual diagrams and symbols. It is divided into introductory chapters on habitat and evolution and state by state chapters describing the health of estuaries today. |
