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QFFD signs contribution agreement with IFAD  22 Dec 2020 - 9:41 Khalifa bin Jassim Al Kuwari, Director-General of Qatar Fund for Development, signing the agreement. The Peninsula Doha: Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) signs a contribution agreement with International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). This contribution will support the adaptation program for smallholder agriculture. Khalifa bin Jassim Al-Kuwari, Director General of Qatar Fund for Development, said, “The COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of climate change have taken a particularly heavy toll on the people living i...

Mapping the undersea landscape of the reef Four researchers on a boat, despite the pandemic. Overview of Sykes Reef on the Great Barrier Reef from RV Falkor multibeam data. Credit: SOI About 160 kilometres off the Queensland coast, the RV Falkor is exploring the deep blue waters of the southern Great Barrier Reef in search of drowned worlds. The research vessel – operated by the Schmidt Ocean Institute – is nearing the end of a month-long expedition to map undersea features that formed during the last Ice Age, to help us better understand today’s rapidly changing reef environment. Mard...

Premium Content Subscriber only DESPITE the most widespread bleaching event ever recorded, researchers have found more than 60 coral colonies born through the first Great Barrier Reef Foundation Coral IVF trial on the Reef in 2016 are thriving and likely to spawn next year.   Pictures of the Parent Colonies Bathing Tubs in 2016. Supplied by: Great Barrier Reef Foundation. Photographer Gary Cranitch Queensland Museum. Great Barrier Reef Foundation managing director Anna Marsden said she couldn't be more excited to see the coral babies had grown from microscopic larvae to the size of dinn...