0202410170606

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Reef Check Australia Description: Reef Check Australia is an innovative citizen-science focused charity dedicated to educating and empowering community volunteers to better understand, appreciate and protect oceans and marine environments.

Reef Check Australia help people help reefs by providing the tools for the community to take positive action for our reefs. Through our network of volunteers, we engage in citizen science, connect people with reef science, and undertake local conservation projects.

Reef Check exists because the scale of monitoring and action required to help look out for reefs called for a network of local people united on a global scale. In 1999, the first ever global Reef Check survey into coral reef health showed the power of community involvement with scientific studies – better known as citizen science! It also shed light on the extent of human impact on reefs around the world.

Reef Check Australia has been helping people to help reefs since 2001. Their programs offer a platform to bring together science, community and positive local action.
STARDIT ID: 0202410170606
Dates

State ongoing
Start 2001-01-01
Form updated 2024-10-17

Report authors
Håkon da Silva Hyldmo (link)
0000-0002-7514-6878
Main author
Location
Australia
Aims
Building capacity for community to collect, understand, share and act on information about reef health
Providing locally relevant and globally comparable reef health data
Filling gaps in available monitoring data
Providing site-level reef health data on locations that matter to local communities
Sharing information that matters to communities in formats that are easy to understand
Catalysing positive locally-based action for the reef
Category
education/learning

Inputs

organisation

Multiple partners (link)



Task: Partnerships and support
organisation

Multiple funders and supporters (link)



Task: Funding and supporting the charity's activities

Outputs and impacts

dataset (open)

Dataset on coral reefs (link)



Accessibility (URL): https://www.reefcheckaustralia.org/data
Impact: Dataset made available to the public


Available for research and education purposes for registration handling fee
publication/report/document

Data on coral reefs made available to scientific community and the public (link)



Impact: Information made public
learning item

Reef checking methods and infographics on threats to coral reefs (link | link)



Impact: Reef surveying standardised method and other learning materials made available for the public
Learning: Standardised reef surveying methods and collection of information about coral reefs available for the public