The locations of recent restoration projects on the Great Barrier Reef.

1) Mackay Reef; 2) Agincourt Reef 3; 3) Opal Reef; 4) Low Isles; 5) Hastings Reef; 6) Vlasoff Cay; 7) Upolu Reef; 8) Green Island; 9) Moore Reef (2 projects); 10) Fitzroy Island; 11) Magnetic Island; 12) Blue Pearl Bay; 13); Manta Ray Bay (2 projects); 14) Keppel Islands 15) offshore Heron Island; 16) Heron Island; 17) One Tree Island.</p

The core of the RRAP Program is founded on seven intervention research and development subprograms, including: (1) cooling and shading, (2) rubble stabilisation, (3) moving corals (larval-based restoration), (4) enhanced corals and treatments, (5) early phase intervention assessments, (6) cryopreservation, and (7) coral aquaculture and deployment.

These are supported by crosscutting R&D subprograms, engagement and regulatory frameworks, decision support, modelling, and ecological intelligence and integrated logistics and automation.</p

The coral gardening process involves the collection of coral fragments, fragmentation, a nursery phase on land or in water, and an (out)planting phase.

The coral gardening process involves the collection of coral fragments, fragmentation, a nursery phase on land or in water, and an (out)planting phase.</p

RRAP strategy to progressively deliver interventions and refine the focus of the R&D program as research findings improve knowledge of feasibility, risks, efficacy, social acceptance and regulatory compliance.

RRAP strategy to progressively deliver interventions and refine the focus of the R&D program as research findings improve knowledge of feasibility, risks, efficacy, social acceptance and regulatory compliance.</p

Coral restoration projects and methods currently underway in Australia: a) the CoralClip®, b) assisted evolution research, c) coral repositioning, d) larval-based restoration, e) substrate stabilisation, f) coral gardening, g) ‘supersucker’ for macroalgae removal, h) industrial larval capture, i) coral seeding units.

Image credits: J. Edmondson, M. Roman/AIMS, I. McLeod, R. Miller, M. Hein, D. Suggett, N. Mattocks, C. Doropoulos, Cathie Page.</p

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