Our Impact

Over 20 years our Foundation has led ground-breaking research and award-winning innovation for a healthier, more resilient reef. To date, the Foundation has raised over $90m, invested into projects that monitor, protect and regenerate the Reef and the thousands of species that call it home.

#Research with Impact

World first to unlock coral DNA

The genetic code of nine Great Barrier Reef coral species and their associated algae and microbes has been unlocked – a world-first achieved with genomics research and the international ReFuGe 2020 consortium.

Restoring the world's largest green turtle rookery

Green turtles are gravely threatened. An ambitious program of research, capacity-building and on-ground works to restore the site of the world’s largest green turtle rookery – remote Raine Island.

Largest water chemistry observing system in the southern ocean

The Future Reef project is generating invaluable observations of changes in the Great Barrier Reef’s water chemistry along its entire length for the first time.

Leading the search for 'super' coral

Convening a consortium of global experts in coral reef, medical and terrestrial genomics and reef management, ReFuGe 2020 brings together true thought leaders who are leading the charge to discover what make a ‘super’ coral' resistant to the impacts of a changing climate.

Powerful tools for Reef managers

The latest technologies and scientific data converge in the six year eReefs project to create a suite of visual, communication and reporting tools for Reef managers. Now the Reef will have its own online information portal accessible to all, just as the Bureau of Meteorology offers for weather info.