Raise the Reef

It’s one of the greatest environmental catastrophes that our country has ever seen… and yet somehow, it’s fallen off the political agenda.

It's time to make some noise about the Great Barrier Reef, and the threat posed by climate change and coral bleaching.

Share our video, email or call your MP, and help us #RaiseTheReef.

Together we can turn up the volume. Let’s make sure this issue doesn’t go away.

It’s one of the greatest environmental catastrophes that our country has ever seen… and yet somehow, it’s fallen off the political agenda.

It's time to make some noise about the Great Barrier Reef, and the threat posed by climate change and coral bleaching.

Share our video, email or call your MP, and help us #RaiseTheReef.

Together we can turn up the volume. Let’s make sure this issue doesn’t go away.

Email your MP

Help us get the Great Barrier Reef back into Parliament, and back on the national agenda. We've drafted an email calling for strong climate action to protect the Reef – and you can make it even more powerful by adding a few sentences on what the Reef means to you, or writing your own email from scratch.

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Subject:

As a member of your electorate, I want to raise my concerns about the threat facing our incredible Great Barrier Reef.

Earlier this year the Great Barrier Reef was hit by the worst mass coral bleaching event in its history. 93% of individual reefs were affected and 22% of coral on the reef has died. Rising global ocean temperatures, driven by climate change, has been the cause of the extremely severe bleaching event on the Reef.

Not only is the reef incredibly beautiful, it’s also a billion dollar economic asset. The value-added economic contribution of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area to the Australian economy in 2011-12 was $5.7 billion and it supported 69,000 jobs.

As Australians, we are proud custodians of one of the seven wonders of the natural world and as my representative in Parliament, you have the ability to help protect it:

Warming ocean temperatures driven by climate change are severely bleaching the Great Barrier Reef. Please raise the plight of the reef and the threat posed by climate change in parliament and in the media to help get it back on the national agenda.

We can only protect the Reef by rapidly tackling the drivers of climate change. Please join with your colleagues from both sides of politics to seek a strong bipartisan plan that outlines how Australia’s electricity sector will shift away from inefficient, emissions intensive coal-fired power and towards a renewables-led energy system.

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