Help end coral harvesting from the Great Barrier Reef
190 tonnes of coral can bear taken from the Great Barrier Reef each year. Your support can shift the trade to tank-grown coral.
The Great Barrier Reef is under immense pressure. Yet up to 190 tonnes of wild coral are still being chipped from the Reef each year, shipped overseas for the global aquarium trade.
These are some of the healthiest corals, struggling to survive climate change, cyclones, and flooding—harvested from a World Heritage Area with little public scrutiny.
We cannot allow this to continue. Wild corals belong on our Reef, not in the world’s aquariums.
In 2025 AMCS launched a national campaign to stop wild coral harvesting and transition the Queensland Coral Fishery to sustainable aquaculture, where corals are grown in tanks instead of removed from the wild.
This campaign is mobilising Australians to demand action, shine a spotlight on the issue, and give our rare and unique corals a fighting chance to thrive.
In 2026 we are seeking funding to build on the momentum generated last year to apply pressure that leads to action when it’s needed most. By donating TODAY, your support will help to:
- Launch petitions, digital campaigns and online advocacy to build mass public pressure to end wild coral harvesting.
- Transition to the more sustainable alternative of coral aquaculture.
- Mobilise ocean lovers, influencers and communities to reach 100,000 Australians.
- Reveal the impacts of coral harvesting through investigative photography, videos and animations.
- Amplify pressure internationally, including at the World Heritage Committee, to raise global attention.
- Fund on-the-ground action like beach events, billboards, citizen science, and public engagement.
By supporting our threatened species campaign, you are protecting rare coral species, strengthening the Reef’s resilience, and giving our oceans a future.
All donations over $2 are 100% tax-deductible. The projects featured in the Funding Prospectus are priority campaign activities and needs for which we are urgently seeking funds – current at the time of posting or going to press. As time progresses, there may be some cases in which the project you have selected may already be fully funded. In that instance, we would be delighted to discuss where the need is greatest at the given time. All of our campaigns work in symbiotic support of our mission to protect our oceans. Please be assured your gift will go to work to be the voice for Australia’s oceans, working on the big issues that risk our ocean wildlife.
