Shark Bay World Heritage Area

We are committed to the protection and preservation of the Shark Bay World Heritage Area which covers 2.2 million hectares of the coast of Western Australia. The area encompasses some of Australia’s most amazing natural assets and is one of the world’s most unique ecosystems. Its colourful and diverse landscape is home to an abundance of animals and plants, some of which are found nowhere else on earth!

The regions vast seagrass meadows feed and shelter globally endangered species. Complex interactions between these plants, the climate and the marine environment have allowed unusual ‘living fossils’ – stromatolites, to thrive much as they did at the dawn of time.

Shark Bay’s extraordinary natural riches are of outstanding global significance, and Shark Bay has been inscribed on the World Heritage List for if natural beauty, biological diversity, ecological processes and earth’s history.