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Moreton Bay Marine Park is home to over a thousand species
of fish (5), six of the world’s seven sea turtle species,
three species of dolphin and the gentle and shy dugong. It
also contains a myriad of sharks, stingrays and thousands
of crabs, molluscs and other invertebrate wildlife.
Moreton Bay Marine Park is internationally listed as a RAMSAR
wetland. This means that the Park provides vitally important
feeding and roosting sites for migratory and resident shore
birds.
Many migratory waders, some no larger than a tennis ball,
travel from as far as Siberia and other places in the Northern
hemisphere to feed on the critters that live in Moreton Bay’s
extensive mudflats.
Amazingly, Moreton Bay Marine Park is the only place in the
world where significant populations of dugongs and turtles
can still be found close to a major metropolitan centre. The
city of Brisbane is incredibly privileged to have this jewel
at its doorstep.
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