Community Action Plans to help prioritise reef protection measures
Community Action Plan April 2021 – Link to Prospectus HERE Local communities have a key role to play in protecting the Great Barrier Reef, and their efforts will be boosted thanks to a new partnership between NQ Dry Tropics, Reef Ecologic and Magnetic Island...Community Action Plans to help prioritise reef protection measures
Local communities have a key role to play in protecting the Great Barrier Reef, and their efforts will be boosted thanks to a new partnership between NQ Dry Tropics, Reef Ecologic and Magnetic Island Community Development Association (MICDA). Funding from the...
Coral Shows Strong Recovery across the Great Barrier Reef
Over the past few months the Great Barrier Reef has experienced what has widely been reported as the ‘3rd mass coral bleaching event in five years’. Reporting has suggested that widespread, severe bleaching has affected large swathes of every region of the reef...Working From Home: A Marine Biologist’s Perspective
As my mentor always say: “In every crisis there is an opportunity” and I think that in this situation, it is exactly what we need need to find. This crisis may be a breather for the environment from all the anthropogenic impacts in the last decades but threats to coral reefs still persists. As marine biologists, it is our responsibility to do what we can and not take these restrictions as barriers in doing our work for the marine environment.