Key project partners  

Australian Institute of Marine Science, Daydream Island, ZigZag Whitsundays, Ocean Rafting, Red Cat Adventures, Iconic Whitsunday Adventures. 

Our work 

A promising approach to the restoration of reefs has been ‘coral IVF’, the collection and strategic relocation of coral larvae to re-seed damaged reefs. Using this methodology, coral spawn is collected, incubated in floating larval pools for 5-7 days and then deployed onto target reefs. Studies indicate that this improves the chance of coral spawn surviving to adulthood from approximately 1 in 1 million, to 1 in 10,000. 

This project is funded by Queensland Government’s Natural Resource Management Expansion Program. This project is part of the Inshore Resilience Project.