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    Tourism operators in the Whitsundays joined scientists to collect coral spawn and grow millions of baby corals to help restore damaged reefs. Giving tourism operators the skills to conduct coral restoration at large scales through collecting spawn and deploying baby corals is key to restoring large areas of the Great Barrier Reef.

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    Tourism operators in the Whitsundays joined scientists to collect coral spawn and grow millions of baby corals to help restore damaged reefs. Giving tourism operators the skills to conduct coral restoration at large scales through collecting spawn and deploying baby corals is key to restoring large areas of the Great Barrier Reef.

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    TOURISM OPERATORS KEY TO LARGE-SCALE CORAL RESTORATION

    Tourism operators key to large-scale coral restoration. Large areas of damaged coral reefs across
    the length of our Great Barrier Reef could soon be restored thanks to a unique partnership between
    scientists and tourism operators.

    Last month, Whitsundays tourism operators joined researchers on the Reef for the annual coral
    spawning event, when corals released trillions of eggs and sperm into the water in a mass breeding
    phenomenon.

    They learned how to collect the spawn and grow millions of baby corals in special floating nurseries,
    then helped deploy millions of these babies onto local damaged reefs to restore and repopulate
    them.

    Coral restoration efforts have so far only been conducted by researchers on a small scale. Giving
    hundreds of tourism operators the skills to carry out this innovative technique, dubbed Coral IVF, is
    key to restoring large areas of damaged coral reefs.

    Tourism operators deploying coral babies onto a damaged reef. Great Barrier Reef Foundation
    Managing Director Anna Marsden says tourism operators worked hand-in-hand with scientists to
    collect the spawn using specially-designed larval pools that are small enough to be deployed from
    their boats.

    “This is a critical next step in reaching kilometre-scale coral restoration by working with the
    hundreds of tourism operators and citizen scientists who are passionate about helping save our
    Reef,” she says.

    “Right in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef, the Whitsundays is a critical sanctuary for the Reef’s
    diverse marine life. However, like the rest of the Great Barrier Reef, it’s also an area that needs our
    help to recover from the effects of climate change such as coral bleaching and increasingly severe
    cyclones.

    “Innovations like Coral IVF bring us hope for the future of the Reef, but we were previously only able
    to do it on a small scale.

    “Through our Reef Islands Initiative, researchers have been upskilling local tourism operators to
    ignite a local reef restoration movement that is grounded in science and is scalable.”

    A specially designed larval pool that is used as a floating nursery

    This trial is part of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s Reef Islands Initiative, the largest reef island
    habitat rehabilitation project of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. The Initiative is supported by
    funding from Lendlease, the Australian Government’s Reef Trust, the Queensland Government and
    the Fitzgerald Family Foundation.

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