I don’t know why it is but each week, it seems that a lot of ‘good news’ conservation stories show up in my inbox. So today, I wanted to share some of the bonanza from yesterday:

Australia creates two marine parks

Mongabay reports that Australia is creating two new marine protected areas that cover 286,000 square miles of ocean – twice the size of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. The two parks will be created in the Indian Ocean northwest of Australia, around Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and will raise the protected share of Australia’s ocean to 45% from 37%.