CURRENT FUNDING

Coral Nurture Program is supported through mixed financial mechanisms that include funded scientific research, philanthropic donations, and other forms of support.

Current Funding

• ROLEX Perpetual Planet: Supporting innovative choice selection into practice in the Cairns/Port Douglas Region.
• Great Barrier Reef Foundation Reef Catchments: Optimisation of the Coral Nurture Program to the Whitsundays Region.
• Great Barrier Reef Foundation Qantas partnership: Evaluating strategic selection to increase resilience.
• Daughters for Earth: Supporting recovery and building resilience of Low Island Reef.
• University of Technology Sydney: In kind operational support and student research stipends.
• Public donations.

Anyone wishing to support activity and/or partner with the Coral Nurture Program can contact us directly. Donations can also be made directly here.

HISTORICAL SUPPORT

• Australian and Queensland Governments “Boosting coral abundance” challenge, as both Feasibility (2018-2019) and subsequent Proof-of-Concept (2019-2020) phases.
• Reeftip drinks Co. supporting community planting and propagation in the Cairns/Port Douglas Region.
• L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Programme. Supporting a scientific study to assess how super corals could be propagated in CNP activities.
• ROLEX Award for Enterprise: Supported research to study super corals for future propagation potential.
• Mars Australia PTY LTD; Supporting Scientific Research on various studies examining efficacy of attachment and stabilization approaches.
• Australian Government’s Reef Trust & Great Barrier Reef Foundation; Optimising Practice Across Diverse Operator Types in the Cairns-Port Douglas region.