The Coral Reef Environment and Management Fund will focus on how past, present and future environmental disturbances (natural and human induced) influence ecological resilience and ecosystem development.  Findings from this coral reef research will inform decision makers so that they can design better policies to safeguard our reefs for the future.

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The research will focus on:

1. developing new, urgently needed, methods to assess plastic pollution impacts on coral reefs;

2. catchment to reef interactions: sediment erosion and nutrient runoff, declining water quality and subsequent impacts on nearshore coral reefs;

3. how mining activities in coastal areas influence coral reef development; and

4. coral bleaching from temperature stress and subsequent reef development.

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With your support, A Coral Affair will conduct critical research into water quality, pollution and the health of the Coral Reef ecosystems in Australia.