Reef Protection Program News Today

Premium Content Subscriber only Mesmeric coral reefs and seagrass beds throughout Central Queensland will live longer thanks to a partnership involving Gladstone Ports Corporation. GPC has teamed up with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service to install $113,500 worth of reef protection infrastructure, south of Gladstone. QPWS rangers worked with Gidarjil Land and Sea Country Rangers and local contractors to install six of the environmentally friendly vessel moorings (EFMs). The large team a...

Projects that could get funding from the governments new reef protection program. >> there are still options available to us if we start looking at it now. we just cant wait 20 years and then start thinking about this. >> reporter: can $400 million save this reef? >> no. >> reporter: why not? >> because the water is warming. >> reporter: research shows record heat is killing coral at an increasingly frequent rate all across the planet. australia alone cannot stop global warming caused by the bur...