Tag: great barrier reef

Like landscapes, organisms are the sum of complex networks of interacting elements from many different groups of smaller organisms. Coral colonies are a dramatic example of this idea, with animal, plant, bacterial and other actors contributing to the whole that we call a “coral”.

The Daintree Coast contains some iconic and familiar landscapes, from the wet tropical rainforests to the Great Barrier Reef, and the complicated labyrinth of mangrove systems in between. What most people don’t know is that these various systems are intricately interdependent. In reality they are not separate systems at all, but three parts of a fantastically complex whole.

Natalie has a socially distanced email chat with John about his and Jenny’s remarkable Coral Nurture Program on the Great Barrier Reef.