Additional $300 000 to Combat Marine Menace
Source: Australia. Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. Media Release
"Key tourism sites on the Great Barrier Reef will be better protected thanks to $300 000 funding from the Australian Government to combat crown-of-thorns starfish. Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Malcolm Turnbull announced the funding would allow the Association of Marine Park Tourism Operators to continue running the crown-ofthorns
starfish (COTS) control programme."