Our Eye on the Reef Sightings Network is a community-based program developed to capture people's interesting, unusual and amazing experiences on the Great Barrier Reef.

The free Eye on the Reef app empowers anyone with a GPS-enabled mobile phone to join this network of citizen scientists and contribute GPS-tagged observations.

Using the app, you can submit photos of what you have seen out on the Reef — this can include wildlife (including protected species), pests like crown-of-thorns starfish, marine pollution, coral bleaching or special events like coral spawning.

You can also use this app to help identify the wildlife you've seen and share your Eye on the Reef sighting photos directly to Facebook.

Sightings Network website

Our interactive Sightings Network map allows anyone in the world to see the amazing wildlife being encountered and recorded by visitors to the Great Barrier Reef.

The website also mirrors the Eye on the Reef app in being able to accept sightings by manually entering your observations from the comfort of your home by using the simple drag-drop map feature.

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Updated 16 Oct 2024
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