UTS Speaks Our priceless Harbour

Great Hall, UTS, 16 August 2012

"Sydney Harbour is world famous for its brilliant views, its stunning opera house, its amazing bridge and as a magnet for countless recreational activities."...more

• Weedy or common sea dragons are only found in the waters off southern Australia.
• Increasing Fresh water inundation...due to runoff from hard urban surfaces
• Raw and even processed Sewerage Contamination (pharmaceuticals)
• Increase in copper tolerant toxic plants
• rising sea water temperatures - tropical fish moving in
• impact of sea walls and piers - loss of mangroves and salt marsh
• Tropical fish displacing cold water fish
• Dioxin levels in fish and oysters

Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS)

Sydney Harbour is one of the most biologically diverse harbours in the world. It is home to over 570 species of fish, 3600 invertebrates including dozens of Australian endemic species, and many thousands of species of often unique marine microbes."...more

"Sydney Harbour is Australia's largest, and most iconic, urbanised estuary. This makes SIMS [Sydney Institute of Marine Science] an ideal place from which to understand, and help manage the pressures of urbanisation on the harbour and coastal ecosystems."...more

Bays Precinct and Sydney Harbour National Park.

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Constructed Urban Wetlands

• Saltmarsh Federal Park, Annandale
• Whites Creek Wetlands, Annandale

Geo-Location: -33.881194, 151.201787-33.881194;151.201787

Page Created 17 August 2012 Page updated 7 May 2015.