Kimberley Marine Park

Conservation values

Species and habitat

• Important foraging areas for migratory seabirds, migratory dugongs, dolphins and threatened and migratory marine turtles.
• Important migration pathway and nursery areas for the protected humpback whale.
• Adjacent to important foraging and pupping areas for sawfish and important nesting sites for green turtles.
• The reserve provides protection for the communities and habitats of waters offshore of the Kimberley coastline ranging in depth from less than 15 metres to 800 metres.

  Bioregions and ecology

• Continental shelf, slope, plateau, pinnacle, terrace, banks and shoals and deep hole/valley seafloor features are all represented in this reserve
• Examples of the communities and seafloor habitats of the Northwest Shelf Transition, Northwest Shelf Province and Timor Province provincial bioregions along with the Kimberley, Canning, Northwest Shelf and Oceanic Shoals meso-scale bioregions.
• Ancient coastline.
• Continental slope demersal fish communities.

  History

Summary of protection zones