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Updated · Mirage News · Aug 24
NAILSMA Leads $30 Million Reef Water Program Phase One
Updated
Updated · Mirage News · Aug 24

NAILSMA Leads $30 Million Reef Water Program Phase One

2 articles · Updated · Mirage News · Aug 24

Summary

  • NAILSMA has been engaged to run Phase One of the Traditional Owner-Led Water Quality Improvement Program, a first step in shaping how later funding will be deployed.
  • Phase One will set up two bodies — a Traditional Owner-Led Reef Water Quality Advisory Group and a Working Group — to guide Phase Two design, build capacity and widen participation.
  • Phase Two will offer grants for on-ground projects aimed at improving Great Barrier Reef water quality while strengthening Traditional Owner stewardship and delivering environmental, cultural and community benefits.
  • The $30 million program, announced last year, is being delivered with Traditional Owners and is intended to draw on traditional knowledge and lessons from the Reef Trust Partnership.

Insights

Will the $30 million program finally grant Indigenous leaders the real enforcement power they demand to save the Great Barrier Reef?
Is establishing new advisory groups enough to stop toxic runoff, or just another bureaucratic delay in the race to save the Reef?
Could combining ancient traditional knowledge with modern science be the ultimate secret to reversing the Reef's deadly water quality crisis?