Reserves proposed earlier this year for Australia's southwestern and northwestern coastal regions have
also been criticised for failing to give habitats adequate protection. In August, 173 marine scientists signed
an open letter to the government saying they were " greatly concerned " that the proposals for the
southwestern region had not been based on the "core science principles" of reserves—the protected regions
were not, for instance, representative of all the habitats in the region, they said.
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