Australia, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

This guide has been written to inspire and empower reef managers and community leaders to develop reef stewardship programs. Stewardship is a way of empowering local communities to take a more active role in sustaining the natural resources on which they depend.

The Great Barrier Reef outlook report 2014 provides an overview of the current condition, use, factors influencing the condition, management effectiveness, resilience, risks to its future and likely outlook. For the first time, the report also specifically considers the Region's heritage values, including Indigenous heritage, historic heritage and the area's world heritage values.