The Great Barrier Reef Foundation Fundraiser

The Deloitte Foundation’s Care for Our Planet stream is hosting a trivia night and online auction to raise funds for the Great Barrier Reef Foundation.

This year’s mass bleaching event is hurting our Reef.

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered the worst summer on record, enduring cyclones, severe flooding, crowns-of-thorns starfish outbreaks and a mass coral bleaching event, a report has just confirmed.

We’ve made significant progress advancing methods to restore reefs damaged by the impacts of climate change, but coral reefs remain one of the most vulnerable ecosystem on the planet. The Great Barrier Reef can recover, but she needs your support.

When she hurts, we hurt. You can help rescue the Reef and build her resilience to the challenges of a warming planet. 

Funds raised for the Reef Rescue Appeal will be used by the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to help the Reef recover and build its resilience for the future.

How you can help rescue the Reef.

There’s never been a more dangerous time for our reef systems, but the good news is we’ve never been in a better position to respond to the threat.

In the past five years, there have been more advancements in applicable solutions than have been achieved in the past 50 years. We already have the research and solutions ready to protect the Reef, but we need your help to implement them at scale.

Here’s how your support will help rescue the Reef:

• Rapid response: taking immediate action to minimise the damage
  Your support will help fund immediate response actions, including ranger-led and technology-driven monitoring missions to understand and map the affected sites and assess damage. This informs the next step: a restoration and resilience plan.

• Restoration: repairing damaged areas of the Reef with Corals for Today
  You can help us restore areas of the Reef that have been damaged by bleaching through programs such as coral fragment planting and our innovative Coral IVF program. Occurring alongside the once-a-year coral spawning event, our Coral IVF program collects millions of coral babies in floating pools, harvests them, then deploys them onto damaged reefs to restore and repopulate them.

• Resilience: building resilience into our reef systems with Corals for Tomorrow
  You can help build long-term resilience in the Reef. Your donations will help accelerate the research and deployment of corals with increased thermal tolerance. These corals are part of a toolkit of solutions that are ready to be deployed onto the Reef.