Protecting coral, protecting the Reef 🪸 The Australian Government is investing an extra $1.4 million to step up the fight against Crown-of-thorns Starfish, coral-eating pests that can consume a dinner plate-sized patch of coral every day. Since 2012, more than 1.4 million Crown-of-thorns Starfish have been culled, protecting coral across 400 reefs. This new funding will back world-leading research and innovative tools like reef robots and eDNA monitoring to keep outbreaks under control. Strong

For millennia, the Meriam Nation people of the eastern Torres Strait have shared a deep spiritual and cultural connection with green turtles – an important totem woven into their identity, island custom and stewardship of their Sea Country. Today, that connection is driving critical, science-based action to protect green turtles in the northern Great Barrier Reef, where rising sand temperatures and habitat loss due to climate change have led to low hatchling production and feminisation of hatchl