❝ With every bleaching event we lose vulnerable corals and with over 50% of corals already gone in the last few decades we don't have a moment to lose. ❞
Dr Dean Miller, CEO | Great Barrier Reef Legacy
Safeguarded
& Research
Living Coral
Biobank dedicated to Great Barrier Reef corals
Lost
At the heart
of our work is
Forever Reef
The Great Barrier Reef's living coral biobank — a world-first, publicly accessible facility preserving coral diversity for tomorrow.
Already home to more than one half of the Great Barrier Reef's coral species, Forever Reef is creating a living ark to safeguard what future generations will need to restore and rebuild our reefs.
Three ways to help
protect the reef
Every coral preserved. Every dollar raised. Every visit made. It all matters.
Donate
Every dollar funds the science, the tanks, and the people protecting coral diversity for future generations. No donation is too small to make a difference.
Donate
Adopt a Coral
Give a coral species a name and fund its place in the world's most important collection. Your coral lives on in the biobank — a living legacy on the Great Barrier Reef.
Adopt your coral
Visit the Biobank
Come face to face with 255+ coral species in Port Douglas. Tour the living collection, meet the scientists, and witness the reef's future being built — coral by coral.
Visit
Join Us to Complete
the Most Precious
Collection on Earth
safeguarded so far
Every coral we protect is a species preserved forever. Help us complete the Great Barrier Reef's living coral biobank — before our window to act closes.