Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
More than 90% of dugongs and turtles diet is seagrass. Seagrass also provides habitats for fish, improves water quality and traps and stores carbon, offsetting our carbon footprint. These crucial ocean habitats are at risk from both natural and man-made influences.
GBRF Blue Carbon programme and The Coles Group partnership is supported by CQUniversity’s Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre and the Gidarjil Development Corporation Sea Rangers to establish a large-scale seagrass nursery at the Gladstone Marina for producing vital supplies of seeds to restore and expand local seagrass meadows in the Great Barrier Reef.
More than 90% of dugongs and turtles diet is seagrass. Seagrass also provides habitats for fish, improves water quality and traps and stores carbon, offsetting our carbon footprint. These crucial ocean habitats are at risk from both natural and man-made influences.
GBRF Blue Carbon programme and The Coles Group partnership is supported by CQUniversity’s Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre and the Gidarjil Development Corporation Sea Rangers to establish a large-scale seagrass nursery at the Gladstone Marina for producing vital supplies of seeds to restore and expand local seagrass meadows in the Great Barrier Reef.
