Today is #WorldSeaTurtleDay - an opportunity for us all to reflect, honour and highlight the important of sea turtles 🐢. 📸 David Harasti

Plenty of whales were spotted frolicking around Booderee National Park over the long weekend! The park is a fantastic place to view whales, but please stay on marked tracks for your safety and to protect our precious environment. Don’t risk a fine!

What a beautiful sunset from the summit of Mt Pitt ! 😍🌄 Happy #SunsetSaturday from Norfolk Island National Park and Botanic Garden!

Good morning everyone, and Happy #MacropodMonday from all our little friends at Booderee National Park ✨🦘. Have you taken some nice shots around the park? Make sure to use the #MacropodMonday to share them with the team 😍. 📸 Credit: Jon Harris

Whale 🐳 watching season is back at Booderee National Park. Don't miss your chance to witness these beautiful creatures. The best spot we'd recommend is Cape St George Lighthouse 💡 at the end of Stoney Creek Road 🛣️. 📸 Credit: Maree Clout

A little cold weather at the Australian National Botanic Gardens Australian National Botanic Gardens doesn’t stop Grevillea lanigera from putting on a show! Also known as ‘Woolly Grevillea’, this hardy native sports fine hairs on its leaves and branchlets. Flowering now in the Rock Garden.

Would you have ever guessed that this flower belongs to the Norfolk Island Palm (Rhopalostylis baueri)? Each of these white flowers will transform into ripe red fruit, which is a favourite food of the Green Parrot. Spotted by Norfolk Island National Park manager Nigel Greenup.

An aerial battle between a white-bellied sea eagle and a juvenile sea eagle🦅 was recently spotted at Booderee National Park 👀😮. Thanks to Daniela Angel who spotted this incredible scene while walking 🚶‍♀️ along Murray's trail. 📸 Credit: Daniela Angel

What do you call two kangaroos living together? Roo-mates 👀🦘 #MacropodMonday is back at Booderee National Park! ✨. Captured some of your own images/videos 📸📽️ around Booderee? Drop them in the comments or use the #MacropodMonday to share with us. 📸 Credit: Jon Harris

We’re excited to be part of a #EurekaPrizes finalist team! The mountaintops of Queensland's wet tropics are havens for unique plants. The #TroMPS collaboration led by @JCU aims to secure their future in a changing climate.

Applications are now open for Our Marine Parks Grants round four. Grant funding of up to $8.6 million is available for individual projects from $30,000 to $500,000. Applications close Wednesday 27 September 2023. Find out more and apply: fal.cn/3AfSg

#MarineMonday is back everybody! ✨ This intriguing looking creature is known as the Balmain Bug (Ibacus peronii). You'll be able to spot these creatures in our South-west marine park network. Follow Australian Marine Parks for more. 📸 Credit: jennlavers

Happy international whale shark day. 🐳🦈 The whale shark (Rhincondon typus) is the largest fish in our oceans with the biggest recorded individual measuring 18.8m! 😮 We are lucky to see whale sharks in a lot of our marine park networks. 📸 Credit: Wondrous World Images

The first of 17 successful IOT Marine Park grants has now been completed on Christmas Island! 🏝️ Artist 🎨 Gavi Libotte chose the Christmas Island Frigatebird in this mural due to the ecological connections it has with the Marine Park, which provides its feeding habitat.

Highlights from a voyage earlier this year into Coral Sea Marine Park in partnership with James Cook Uni. Dive surveys, island health checks and more were completed, providing valuable information for the continued health of the Coral Sea Marine Park 📝✨. 📸 James Cook Uni & @parks_australia

Ready or not, here we come! 😜 This July, the megafauna are playing hide and seek! Visit the Australian National Botanic Gardens during July and see how many you can find. Can you tell where they are? 👀 📹 @anbg #ANBGMEGAfauna #ANBG #AustralianNationalBotanicGardens

Tell us which facts about the Giant Cuttlefish don't belong? 🤔 A) They're social creatures, often following divers around 👀 B) They measure up to 5m in length when fully grown 😮 C) They have 3 hearts and blue blood 🤨 Australian Marine Parks 📸 David Harasti & Erik Schlogl

What's your favourite fact about the Potato Cod (Epinephelus tukula)? 🥔🐟 1️⃣ They weigh up to 100kg 😮 2️⃣ They live for up to 40 years ⌛ 3️⃣ They grow up to 2m in length 📏 Have the Australian Marine Parks missed any? Tell us more about this amazing species ✨. 📸 Cathy Zwick

Today we welcome your input on the future management of Australia's two newest marine parks - Christmas Island Marine Park and Cocos (Keeling) Marine Park 🤝. To Have Your Say on the draft management plans, visit consult.dcceew.gov.au by September 19.

The government is now operating in accordance with the Caretaker Conventions, pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election. Learn more at pmc.gov.au/resources/guid…