Welcome to the Eye on the Reef Program

A partnership program between the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Great Barrier Reef tourism industry and the reef research community.

The main aims of the Eye on the Reef Program are;

to facilitate information exchange between the program partners,
to provide cost effective methods of obtaining ‘trend and trigger’ information about reef sites in the Great Barrier Reef, and
to foster stewardship and appreciation of the Reef by tourism industry staff and in-turn the millions of reef tourists that visit the Great Barrier Reef.

The Eye on the Reef Monitoring Program relies on tourism staff who collect standardised biological information at frequently visited sites. The information is collected at weekly intervals at a large number of sites spread across a wide geographic area. The data are analysed and reported back to industry staff, Reef managers and the reef research community.

The Eye on the Reef Monitoring Program currently involves twenty seven operators based in the Port Douglas, Cairns and Whitsundays regions.

Port Douglas operators:

Cairns operators:

Whitsundays operators:

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