Australian Marine Conservation Society

Fight for our Reef

Fight for our Reef

Saving the reef by choosing coral over coal

TOTAL GRANTED

$60,000

Safeguarding our Environment

Impact AreaSafeguarding our Environment

Year First Supported 2017

Australian Marine Conservation Society Organisation Australian Marine Conservation Society

The Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS) is the voice for Australia’s oceans. AMCS is Australia’s only national charity dedicated solely to protecting our precious ocean wildlife – a community of ocean lovers across the nation working for healthy seas.

Saving the reef by choosing coral over coal

The Fight for our Reef project is mobilising the Cairns tourism industry and local climate change movement to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

ISSUE

Climate change is a threat to the Great Barrier Reef. Existing policy and investment decisions are being economically rather than environmentally led and are not protecting the Reef. There is a lack of acknowledgement or urgency on the part of governments in Australia to recognise and respond to the threat of climate change. The mining and other industries have had a significant influence over government policy.

RESPONSE

The project is bringing an industry voice in support of the environment into the climate change debate by working at a grassroots level to engage and mobilise local community members and reef-based industries to advocate for stronger protection of the Great Barrier Reef.

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