Beneath Bremer Bay - Majestic marine life of Australia's Great Southern Reef

Craig Lebens is an advocate for the Great Southern Reef and wants people to learn from exploring the wonders of the underwater world first hand. In this 5 minute film, Lebens shares insights from documenting Bremer Bay’s populations of leafy seadragons. Over this time he has also witnessed hundreds of people’s reactions to seeing these special creatures for the first time.
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Craig Lebens wants people to know "Currently Bremer Bay is excluded from any no-take protection in the proposed South Coast Marine Park. No take zoning should be expanded to include Bremer Bay, to conserve the unique biodiversity and ecotourism value of the area."
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Learn more about the Great Southern Reef
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Video by Stefan Andrews | Ocean Imaging
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This edit was commissioned by Save Our Marine Life
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Help us crowdfund development of the GSR Documentary:
GSRF Co-founders, Stefan Andrews and Kingsley Griffin have partnered with Think Films producer Lara Damiani (Tibet’s Cry for Freedom, A Place to Call Home), and acclaimed Director, Bentley Dean (Facing Monsters, Tanna, First Footprints), to develop a feature-length Documentary focusing on the Great Southern Reef.
The team need to raise $25k for pre-production work on the film. Your donation will help to develop the story, format and cinematic style, and enable us to produce a pitch and path to market. Tax deductible donations can be made via the project page at Documentary Australia. Please share, and donate, generously.
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[@davidh6300]

Im really looking forward to visiting here

[@nataleekelly2496]

Thank you so much for sharing this absolute beauty! You are so correct in calling this majestic! The seadragons are exceptional creatures I adore. Thank you again. 😍❤👏👏👏

[@GreatSouthernReef]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment!

[@davidmuirhead6722]

A wonderful statement from the heart, supported by superb footage. Here in SA of course we have the same predicament: ignorance of backyard biodiversity, with an outstanding example being the minimal research funding on the Western Blue Groper. Many of our local reefs have none, or perhaps the occasional juvenile. They never attain maturity, and occasional recruitment of new juveniles is via the dwindling numbers of breeding adults on healthier reefs many km south (Where the species is ,paradoxically, unprotected. It is only protected in our gulfs, but the mortality rate, largely by accidental bycatch together with inadequate size of Green Sanctuary Zones, is too high for breeding populations to re-establish in places like Aldinga Reef and Port Noarlunga Reef

[@davidmuirhead6722]

...continued: ...,also the Carrickalinga Cliffs GSZ, which would originally have supported several haremic 'family groups ', and was declared a GSZ circa 2014, still only supports a few older juveniles. I've been monitoring that site informally for 5 decades but seen no increase in size of juveniles in the 9 years since it became a GSZ, and arguably at best a slight increase in numbers of juveniles. None of these are likely to reach maturity without drastic increase in public education and awareness that this is the top order territorial bony reef fish. Interestingly the Australian Snapper is the top order non territorial bony reef fish here, but being an important commercial and recreational target species it attracts plenty of research funding, largely to ensure sustainability 🤳.

[@Life_42]

I love all your uploads! Thank you for sharing, I greatly appreciate every single video.