Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Christmas Island Marine Park Management Plan) Instrument 2025 (Cth)

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Christmas Island Marine Park Management Plan) Instrument 2025

I, Tanya Plibersek, Minister for the Environment and Water, approve, under subparagraph 370(3)(b)(i) of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, this instrument, that is a legislative instrument made by me on the day of this approval under subsection 371(1) of that Act.

Dated 17 January 2025

Tanya Plibersek

Minister for the Environment

How to cite this document

Director of National Parks, Christmas Island Marine Park Management Plan 2025

Director of National Parks Australian business number: 13 051 694 963

This plan is available online via parksaustralia.gov.au/marine.

This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence, with the exception of the Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Australia, government agency logos, content supplied by third parties and all images.

For licence conditions see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

ISBN: 978-0-646-89796-7

Cover photo: Christmas Island red crab (Chris Bray)

Contents

Vision.........................................................................5

Objectives......................................................................6

Foreword.......................................................................7

Acknowledgements...............................................................8

1.0 Introduction.................................................................9

1.1 Introductory provisions........................................................9

1.2 Management plan overview...................................................10

1.3 Australian marine parks......................................................10

1.4 Context for management.....................................................11