DIVERS ALL OVER the world are being encouraged to participate in a citizenscience project designed to boost the long-term health of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. All that’s required is access to the Internet “and a few minutes to spare”.
Training agency PADI says it has teamed up with Australian conservation network Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef for what it describes as a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Great Reef Census. Divers contribute to the effort by carrying out online reef-image analysis.