Stakeholders

Creator and Lead Stakeholder

NPA~Marine is the marine sector of the National Parks Association of NSW, a non-profit, non-government conservation organisation dedicated to protecting natural areas in NSW.

NPA~Marine is actively campaigning for an increase in marine protected areas in NSW and for habitat protection for the critically endangered Grey Nurse Shark. NPA~Marine involves and educates the community in marine conservation issues.

Click here to visit NPA~Marine's website.

If you want your business or group to get involved in CoastKeepers please contact us!

CoastKeepers Fish Survey Groups

Dive groups all along the NSW coast are participating in CoastKeepers Fish Survey of 50 marine fish. The Fish Survey enables volunteer divers to contribute their diving skills to marine conservation while gathering important scientific data.

Click here to read about CoastKeepers Fish Survey.

Dive groups interested in getting involved in CoastKeepers Fish Surveys are invited to contact us.

The following dive groups are conducting CoastKeepers Fish Surveys in their local waters. If you would like to contact a representative of any of these groups contact the CoastKeepers coordinator here.

Charlestown Diving Academy

Based in Newcastle, Charlestown Dive's Social Club actively promotes safe and responsible diving through its training program and ongoing environmental education for its members. This includes guest speakers at club nights, annual underwater photography competition and participation in events such as Clean Up Australia Day and CoastKeepers Fish Surveys in the Port Stephens Marine Park.

The club has social dives every weekend and monthly trips away. Visitors to the area are encouraged to visit the shop for information on local dive sites. New members are always welcome.

Club meetings are held on the third Tuesday of the month at Warners at the Bay. Other member benefits include a bi-monthly newsletter with articles of interest and notices of club trips. See our website for more information.

Eco Divers

Eco Divers is a volunteer-based marine conservation group who conduct numerous activities to ensure the preservation and protection of the underwater environment.

Based on Sydney's Northern Beaches, an area of high marine bio-diversity, Eco Divers work with other organisations on a variety of joint and self-initiated projects including monitoring seahorse habitats and shark nets.

Jervis Bay Divers Club

The Jervis Bay Divers Club (JBDC) was established in 1986 by local divers as a club to cater for divers and their families, both socially and with diving activities. JBDC has over 90 members comprising over 200 local, interstate and international individuals.

JBDC promotes and maintains high standards of safe diving practices, while retaining the 'FUN of DIVING'. Our policy is to promote and protect Jervis Bay as a unique and excellent diving area. We have been active in all aspects of the protection of Jervis Bay and have been consulted by all levels of government.

Club meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month at the Vincentia Golf Club. Other member benefits include a bi-monthly newsletter with articles of interest and notices of club functions. See our website for more information.

Montague Dive Club

The Montague Dive Club is based in Narooma on the Far South Coast of NSW. The club is very informal and aims to give local and Canberra divers an opportunity to dive in the South Coast's beautiful waters. We organise shore and boat dives at sites from Ulladulla down to Eden and have a particular focus on the iconic Montague Island, which we visit several times a year.

New members and visitors are always welcome. The Montague Dive Club welcomes the new Batemans Marine Park as a means to protect marine life in our area and we will be monitoring the impacts of the Park on fish populations using the CoastKeepers Fish Survey.

SURG (Solitary Islands Underwater Research Group)

SURG aims to increase understanding of the underwater environment of the Solitary Islands Marine Park and adjacent waters and to promote the social aspects of diving. Our membership is very diverse; most members are active divers and all are keen naturalists. Our membership includes tertiary-trained biologists and talented underwater photographers.

SURG was founded in 1985 and since then has held educational displays and underwater clean-ups, produced quality photographic ID books and contributed papers for scientific journals.

SURG has become well known for its research work on the benthic communities of the SIMP including:

• Mapping habitat distribution.
  
• Conducting biodiversity surveys.
  
• Establishing a photographic inventory of fauna.
  
• Monitoring coral bleaching.
  
• Monitoring the spread of corallimorph colonies.

SURG has also set up an underwater interpretive trail at North Solitary Island. See our website for more information.

Getting your business or group involved in CoastKeepers

Businesses, social groups, clubs - all organisations are invited to get involved in CoastKeepers activities. CoastKeepers events offer a great chance for participants to learn more about the marine environment and help safeguard the NSW coast.

If you would like more information on how your organisation can get involved in CoastKeepers please contact us.

Open and Closed Events

Organisations can participate in CoastKeepers activities as either Open or Closed events. In both instances CoastKeepers will help in the organisation and promotion of the event to raise awareness of your organisation's contribution to marine conservation.

The main difference is that Open events will be promoted to all our CoastKeepers volunteers as an event they can join and that Closed events are for the organisation's members or customers only.

If you want your business or group to get involved in CoastKeepers please contact us!