…or we can just do it.

Working in concert with other environmental organizations and the relative authorities, OCEANGUARD is planning to embark on one of the most challenging environmental battles of our time - the rescue of sections of the Great Barrier Reef that are capable of surviving rising sea temperatures.  

With a goal of returning these reef areas back to their natural state, an umbrella  strategy will be worked out with various environmental organizations to achieve such an outcome. Each group will focus on one battle front or Barrier Reef issue with the support of the other groups.

For it's part, OCEANGUARD will undertake a plan to combat the third Crown-of-thorns plague on selected reefs.

Over the last thirty years, the Great Barrier Reef has been severely damaged by two plagues of these starfish. With a third plague already in progress, the plight of the surviving coral is a perilous one.  For at any time, immanently, a full outbreak of Crown-of-thorns starfish will occur, unleashing millions of these coral-eating predators upon an already besieged reef. Though, when the third plague began, the Authority in charge of the Reef publicly stated that it would not stand by and see the Reef devastated again. Unbelievably the government of the day refused funds for the Authority's control plan. Only a concerned public can reverse this catastrophe.

While this Great Barrier Reef operation is underway, monitoring of other coral reef ecosystems around the world can be implemented so that the experience gathered during the Barrier Reef programme can be applied to any other ecosystem needing aid.

The cost of this programme is a formidable one.

To offset this cost, OCEANGUARD plans mounting a scientific and political task of such magnitude it will require the effort of everyone who cares about coral reefs. OCEANGUARD will coordinate the management and action programmes, enabling volunteers from the public to work side by side with professional coral reef managers and scientists in a wide variety of challenging and educational programmes.

To enhance public awareness and participation, OCEANGUARD will encourage corporations and businesses to sponsor and implement major media events like traveling art exhibitions and music concerts.  This environmental battle has to be a celebration, a joining of spirits to heal an earthly wound and preserve a matchless beauty and scientific laboratory for the generations to come.

To initiate this grand plan, OCEAN GUARD specifically appeals to all those who have an affinity with the ocean to support it.