Our Great Barrier Reef is under threat, and we need your help
Our planet has lost half its coral reefs since the 1950’s. Climate change is the biggest threat to the survival of the Great Barrier Reef and coral reefs around the world. Warmer temperatures are triggering mass coral bleaching events, disrupting food supplies and breeding cycles, and threatening entire ecosystems.
It’s not too late to protect coral reefs and the marine life that calls them home, but our window to act is closing. That’s why at the Great Barrier Reef Foundation, we’ve built a collaborative organisation to raise funds, invest in innovative ideas and design real-world, scalable conservation programs.
Our progress is unprecedented, but the job is not done.
We are creating a lifeline for coral reefs by protecting critical ocean habitats, restoring coral reefs and helping them adapt to climate change.
This is the critical decade for bold, decisive action. With your help, we can all have healthy coral reefs in our future.
Coral Reefs
The world’s largest collaborative effort to protect an ecosystem from climate change.
Global partnerships
Working with Indigenous groups and reef communities to help boost ecosystem resilience.
Islands and coasts
Restoring critical habitats to protect ecosystems and vulnerable species.
Our Work
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s mission is to co-create a better future for coral reefs and the people who rely on them. We collaborate to achieve breakthroughs in marine science, bring species and habitats back from the brink, pioneer new tools and catalyse new solutions.
We co-design and deliver programs with Traditional Owners and local communities in Australia and across the Pacific with a vision to share our tools and techniques globally. We are currently delivering 400+ projects with 60 staff, and more than 500 on-ground delivery partners. Our projects are designed in partnership and focus on innovation, acceleration and durable impact.
From improving water quality and invasive pest management techniques, restoring our coastal wetlands, unlocking blue carbon opportunities, and resolving coral restoration bottlenecks to prove we can restore coral reefs at scale, we are tackling the key threats facing the world’s coral reefs.
“The science is clearly telling us what needs to be done if we are to secure this magnificent underwater world. Doing nothing is unthinkable and falling short is not an option. That’s why we need your support.”
Anna Marsden
Managing Director
Great Barrier Reef Foundation
The Great Barrier Reef Foundation is a registered charity and is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR1) by the Australian Taxation Office ABN 82 090 616 443