Academic Journal
Cost-effectiveness of tourism-led coral planting at scale on the northern Great Barrier Reef
| العنوان: | Cost-effectiveness of tourism-led coral planting at scale on the northern Great Barrier Reef |
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| المؤلفون: | Scott, Rachael I., Edmondson, John, Camp, Emma F., Agius, Taryn, Coulthard, Phillip, Edmondson, Jenny, Edmondson, Katrina, Hosp, Russell, Howlett, Lorna, Roper, Christine D., Suggett, David |
| المساهمون: | KAUST Reefscape Restoration Initiative and Red Sea Research Centre King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal 23955 Saudi Arabia, KAUST RRI @Shushah Island, Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Climate Change Cluster University of Technology Sydney Ultimo New South Wales 2007 Australia, Wavelength Reef Cruises 6/43 Macrossan Street Port Douglas Queensland 4877 Australia, Ocean Free and Ocean Freedom—Cairns Premier Reef and Island Tours Reef Fleet Terminal, 1 Spence Street Cairns City Queensland 4870 Australia, Great Adventures—Quicksilver Group Reef Fleet Terminal, 1 Spence Street Cairns Queensland 4870 Australia, Sailaway Port Douglas Shop 8, Crystalbrook Superyacht Marina Port Douglas Queensland 4877 Australia, Passions of Paradise Reef Fleet Terminal, 1 Spence Street Cairns City Queensland 4870 Australia |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley |
| سنة النشر: | 2024 |
| المجموعة: | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: KAUST Repository |
| الوصف: | Stakeholder-led coral reef restoration efforts, aimed at locally retaining or rebuilding coral populations, have rapidly grown over the last two decades. However, the cost-effectiveness—and in turn viability—of coral restoration projects remains rarely reported. We therefore evaluated coral planting (often termed “outplanting”) cost-effectiveness across the first 3.5 years of the Coral Nurture Program (CNP), a coral restoration approach integrated within tourism operations on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. CNP operator activity reporting forms (63,632 corals planted, 5 tourism operators, and 23 reef sites) were used to opportunistically calculate coral planting costs (PC; US$ coral−1 trip−1) for “routine” planting versus when additional stewardship activities—that regulate planting effectiveness—were undertaken (e.g., nursery maintenance). Mean PC (±standard error) was US$2.34 ± 0.20 coral−1 trip−1 (ranging US$0.78–6.03, 5th–95th percentile), but increased 2- to -6-fold on trips where nursery propagation, site maintenance, or staff training was conducted to support planting efforts. The “realized” cost (PCR) of establishing coral biomass was subsequently determined by evaluating survivorship of planted corals across space (9 sites, single survey timepoint, n = 4,723 corals up to 3 years old) or over time (2 sites, over 9–12 months, n = 600 corals), resulting in costs increasing from PC to PCR by 25–71%. We demonstrate how integration of practices into tourism operations creates potential for cost-effective coral planting at “high-value” tourism reef sites, and discuss important steps for improving cost-accounting in stakeholder-led restoration programs that may be similarly positioned to routinely determine their cost-effectiveness. ; The authors acknowledge the Yirriganydji and the Yidinji peoples as the Traditional Owners of the Sea Country on which this research was conducted, and convey their deepest respects to elders past, present, and emerging. The authors wish to express immense gratitude to the two ... |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| تدمد: | 1061-2971 1526-100X |
| Relation: | Restoration Ecology; http://hdl.handle.net/10754/697692 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/rec.14137 |
| الاتاحة: | http://hdl.handle.net/10754/697692 https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.14137 |
| Rights: | Archived with thanks to Restoration Ecology under a Creative Commons license, details at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.F592C59C |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| تدمد: | 10612971 1526100X |
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| DOI: | 10.1111/rec.14137 |