REEF RESILIENCE

Local stewardship for restoration and resilience

April 17, 2024

Session

Start
10:00 am
End
2:50 pm
Room
Michaelmas Cay Room
Details

Around the world, community groups, citizen scientists and First Nations rights-holders, are taking actions to monitor, protect and restore marine and coastal habitats to promote ecosystem resilience and enable local communities and economies to adapt to change. Presentations within this session will showcase place-based initiatives by traditional custodians, communities, tourism operators and citizen science groups to monitor and care for reefs and coastal environments. Topics in this session will also provide insight into approaches to centralise traditional knowledge in reef science, and highlight capacity-building initiatives for local stewards.

Talks in this session

Evolution of local scale site stewardship on the Great Barrier Reef

Eric Fisher

Experience Co

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Empowering local scale stewardship actions by Great Barrier Reef tourism operators

Justin Bovery-Spencer

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (Reef Authority)

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Coral Nurture Program: A collaborative approach to coral propagation and out-planting on the Great Barrier Reef

Paige Strudwick

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

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Lessons learnt implementing mineral accretion and coral gardening at Agincourt Reef, Great Barrier Reef

Kailash Cook

The University of Queensland (UQ)

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The Cairns-Port Douglas Reef Hub: An open, place-based collaborative network for local reef stewardship

Abbi Scott

James Cook University (JCU)

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Cultivating capital: Enhancing communities through Great Barrier Reef adaptation and management

Gillian Paxton

James Cook University (JCU)

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A local, “grass roots” collaboration for the restoration of tropical seagrass in north Queensland

Tim Smith

James Cook University (JCU)

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Women in Marine Conservation

Kimberly Wong

JARI Foundation

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Reefs of Hope: A Nature-Based Coral-focused Climate Change Adaptation Program Endorsed by UNESCO

Austin Bowden-Kerby

Corals for Conservation

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Diverse coral larvae production from ocean-based nurseries that cater for warm water and wild weather

Ryan Donnelly

Reef Restoration Foundation

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Could an inexpensive, low-tech, low-energy, small-scale intervention that reintroduces “normal” mixing of the water column improve outcomes for corals during acute mass bleaching events?

Dennis Stanley

University of Western Australia (UWA)

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Rebuilding the reefs of Peel Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland

Jodi Salmond and Mark Gibbs

Reef Check Australia

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Building locally to scale globally

Andy Ridley

Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef

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      In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past, present, and emerging and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.