Passport to Recovery:

Australia's first native shellfish reef for citizen science monitoring!

01 / 07

Over 85% of native shellfish reefs globally have been lost to over harvesting, dredging and ecosystem degradation.

In Australia in recent years a number of shellfish reef have been deployed to restore Ostrea angasi populations.

On Kangaroo Island both the Nature Conservancy and the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board have deployed shellfish reefs at American River and Kingscote.

We have built a small scale, shallow reef for tourists and the local community to visualise what is happening on these larger off-shore reefs.

The citizen science restoration reef 'Reef Rewind' has been installed ~30m offshore at Kingscote Beach, out the front of the Ozone Hotel.

Artist impression of reef development overtime

Image: © Alex Goad Reef Design Lab

Passport to Recovery is a citizen science program aimed at getting visitors and locals involved in the post bushfire monitoring of Kangaroo Island.

The Passport to Recovery Reef Rewind project, allows visitors to see first hand reef development overtime and to contribute to long term monitoring efforts.

Below is a map of the reef location in Kingscote, Kangaroo Island.

Currently the reef looks like this

Keep checking back for more updates on the development of the reef overtime from our dedicated citizen scientists!