Best practice coral restoration for the Great Barrier Reef (Old ID 24990)

Department of the Environment and Energy
Role

Principal Investigator

Description

Great Barrier Reef (GBR) continues to degrade, pressure is growing for direct interventions to assist the recovery of corals at important sites. This project will (1) summarise and evaluate the success of coral restoration and assisted recovery techniques worldwide (2) identify the techniques most likely to help the GBR and experimentally test the most promising techniques, (3) come up with best practices for post-impact coral reattachment and reorientation and (4) explore options for training courses, offset models and Indigenous employment.

Date

01 Jan 2018 - 10 Dec 2020

Project Type

GRANT

Keywords

coral restoration;envornmental management;coastal restoration;coral ecology;Larval Ecology;Citizen Science

Funding Body

Department of the Environment and Energy

Amount

607000

Project Team

Margaux Hein;Lisa Bostrom Einarsson;Geoffrey Jones;David Bourne;Adam Smith