Eye on the Reef app

Eye on the Reef app download link and Youtube instruction.

Tourism on the Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is recognised as providing unique, high-standard and world-class tourism experiences.

Tourism Industry Activation and Reef Protection Initiative

Seventeen marine tourism operators along the Great Barrier Reef have undertaken thousands of hours of Reef conservation activities as part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s Tourism

Here’s lookin’ at you, Reef

They’re on the water year-round and know their patch like the back of their hand, so who better to help keep an Eye on the Reef than marine tourism operators. 

They’re on the water year-round and know their patch like the back of their hand, so who better to help keep an Eye on the Reef than marine tourism operators. 

Reef Snapshot: summer 2024-2025 released

The Reef Authority, along with our partners at the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the CSIRO, has released the

The Reef Authority, along with our partners at the Australian Institute of Marine Science and the CSIRO, has released the Reef snapshot: summer 2024-25, which provides a summary of Reef impacts ove

Reef Snapshot: summer 2021-22 released

The Reef Authority, along with our partners at AIMS and the CSIRO, has released the Reef health Snapshot, which provides a summary of Reef conditions over the past summer.

Conservation and monitoring

Field officers deliver a range of activities that help maintain and improve the condition of the Reef.

Tinder for Corals with Dr Jessica Stella

By all accounts, there aren’t ‘that’ many mermaids from Braintree, Massachusetts; a folksy, 40,000-strong municipality just south of Boston, on America’s mostly chilly east coast.

Dr Jessica Stella is a distinguished marine ecologist and Assistant Director of Reef Health at the Reef Authority.

Reef guardians

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's Reef Guardian program recognises the good environmental work undertaken by communities and industries to protect the Great Barrier Reef.