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The Australian Government has provided significant investment into onground projects to protect the Great Barrier Reef through the Reef Trust.

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Reef Trust is the Australian Government's investment program to support the delivery of the Reef 2050 Long Term Sustainability Plan

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Since 2008 the Australian Government has funded several projects designed to improve water quality flowing off the land into the reef. These included:

  • Reef Rescue/Reef Programme (2008-2016) – $65m invested acorss all catchments to facilitate change in farming practices
  • Reef Trust Phase 1 Tenders (2014-2018) – $1.7m allocated through a competitive market-based tender program to support sugarcane farmers in reducing applied nitrogen fertiliser.
  • Reef Trust III (2016-2019) – $50m in total of which $10m was invested into reducing nutrient and pesticide runoff from Wet Tropics cane farms.
  • Project Uplift (2016-2019) – $17.3m to support cane farmers in adopting the Six Easy Steps.
  • Reef Trust Repeated Tenders (2017-2022) – $5m to support cane farmers in reducing nitrogen fertiliser
  • Reef Trust Gully & Grazing Program (2017-2022) – $3m to reduce fine sediment flowing into the Herbert catchment
  • Reef Trust VII Fish Homes & Highways (2020-2023) – $5m to improve fish habitat connectivity

Find out more about Reef Trust: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/parks-heritage/great-barrier-reef/reef-trust

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