Key documents

Below are electronic copies or links to related plans, reports and supporting documents.

• Reef 2050 Catchment Water Quality Strategy 2026 (PDF, 19.3MB)
• Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan review report (PDF, 2.1MB)
• Reef 2050 Catchment Water Quality Strategy public consultation summary (PDF, 391.7KB)
• 2026 Scientific Report on the Great Barrier Reef Water Quality Targets (PDF, 18.1MB) and Supplementary information (PDF, 21.3MB)
• Great Barrier Reef Water Quality Targets – A Science Update (PDF, 4.0MB)
• 2022 Scientific Consensus Statement
• Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan
• Reef 2050 Wetlands Strategy
• Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2024
• Review of the health of the Great Barrier Reef governance system

Refer to individual websites for Healthy Country Plans and Regional Water Quality Strategies.

Key prioritisation and decision support frameworks and tools

• Spatial Management Prioritisation assessment and management response framework
  • Full report (PDF, 34.1MB)
  • Regional summary (PDF, 6.8MB)
• 2025 Land Management Target Review – including potential adoption information for each priority land management practice
• 2025 Urban Investment Prioritisation Report (PDF, 1.7MB)
• Walking the Landscape Framework
• Catchment profiles
• Reefonomics
• Paddock to Reef Projector Tool

Report cards

• Report card explainer (PDF, 9.1MB)
• Reef Water Quality Report card 2021 and 2022
• Regional Report Card Partnerships (Wet Tropics, Dry Tropics, Mackay-Whitsunday-Isaac, Fitzroy, Gladstone)

Superseded

• Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan 2017–2022 (PDF, 3.6MB)
• Reef Water Quality Protection Plan 2013 (PDF, 4.0MB)
• Reef Water Quality Protection Plan 2009 (PDF, 2.4MB)
• Reef Water Quality Protection Plan 2003 (PDF, 1.8MB)
• 2017 Scientific Consensus Statement (PDF, 1.1MB)
  • Chapter 1—The condition of coastal and marine ecosystems of the Great Barrier Reef and their responses to water quality and disturbances (PDF, 3.0MB)
  • Chapter 2—Sources of sediments, nutrients, pesticides and other pollutants to the Great Barrier Reef (PDF, 2.9MB)
  • Chapter 3—The risks from anthropogenic pollutants to Great Barrier Reef coastal and marine ecosystems (PDF, 8.4MB)
  • Chapter 4—Management options and their effectiveness (PDF, 4.6MB)
  • Chapter 5—Overview of findings, management implications and knowledge gaps (PDF, 2.3MB)
• 2013 Scientific Consensus Statement (PDF, 886.8KB)
  • Chapter 1—Marine and coastal system impacts (PDF, 1.7MB)
  • Chapter 2—Resilience of Great Barrier Reef ecosystems and drivers of change (PDF, 2.4MB)
  • Chapter 3—Relative risks to the Great Barrier Reef from degraded water quality (PDF, 3.2MB)
  • Chapter 4—Sources of sediment, nutrients, pesticides and other pollutants in the Great Barrier Reef catchment (PDF, 1.6MB)
  • Chapter 5—The water quality and economic benefits of agricultural management practices (PDF, 1.6MB)
• Scientific Consensus Statement 2008 (PDF, 1.9MB)
• Synthesis of evidence to support the Scientific Consensus Statement on Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef (PDF, 2.0MB)
• Development of basin-specific ecologically relevant water quality targets for the Great Barrier Reef (PDF, 3.2MB)
• Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2019
• Great Barrier Reef Outlook Report 2014
• Reef Water Quality Protection Plan 2013 Prioritisation project report
• Reef Plan Achievements 2013–2014 (PDF, 1.6MB)
• Reef Plan Annual Report 2006–2007:
  • Part 1 (PDF, 1.0MB) (Executive Summary, Reef Plan background, and the story so far)
  • Part 2 (PDF, 864.6KB) (Progress 2006–2007)
  • Part 3 (PDF, 1,007.6KB) (Progress 2006–2007 continued, next steps, and glossary)

• Reef Water Quality Report card 2020
• Reef Water Quality Report card 2019
• Reef Water Quality Report card 2017 and 2018
• Great Barrier Reef Report card 2016
• Great Barrier Reef Report card 2015

• Great Barrier Reef Report Card 2014
  • Summary (PDF, 4.4MB)
  • Results (PDF, 12.1MB)
  • Wetland monitoring pilot project case study (PDF, 953.7KB)
  • Frequently asked questions (PDF, 386.8KB)

• Great Barrier Reef Report Card 2012 and 2013
  • Summary (PDF, 1.3MB)
  • Results (PDF, 8.9MB)
• Great Barrier Reef Report Card 2011
  • Summary (PDF, 1.3MB)
  • Results:
    • Management practices (PDF, 1.1MB)
    • Ground cover (PDF, 1.3MB)
    • Catchment pollutant loads (PDF, 1.2MB)
    • Marine (PDF, 4.4MB)

• Great Barrier Reef Report Card 2010
  • Great Barrier Reef-wide summary (PDF, 5.7MB)
  • Regional summaries:
    • Cape York (PDF, 4.1MB)
    • Wet Tropics (PDF, 3.2MB)
    • Burdekin (PDF, 5.1MB)
    • Mackay Whitsunday (PDF, 2.4MB)
    • Fitzroy (PDF, 5.3MB)
    • Burnett Mary (PDF, 2.4MB)
  • Results (PDF, 11.3MB)
• Great Barrier Reef First Report Card 2009
  • Great Barrier Reef-wide summary (PDF, 3.2MB)
  • Interim Activity Report and Performance Outlook (PDF, 1.4MB)
  • Regional summaries:
    • Cape York (PDF, 2.1MB)
    • Wet Tropics (PDF, 1.7MB)
    • Burdekin (PDF, 2.1MB)
    • Mackay Whitsunday (PDF, 2.0MB)
    • Fitzroy (PDF, 2.4MB)
    • Burnett Mary (PDF, 2.1MB)
  • Technical report (PDF, 23.3MB)
    • Executive Summary (PDF, 341.7KB)
    • Introduction (PDF, 5.2MB)
    • Management overview (PDF, 1.4MB)
    • Methods (PDF, 1.0MB)
    • Great Barrier Reef region (PDF, 1.5MB)
    • Cape York region (PDF, 4.7MB)
    • Wet Tropics region (PDF, 3.4MB)
    • Burdekin region (PDF, 1.3MB)
    • Mackay Whitsunday region (PDF, 1.1MB)
    • Fitzroy region (PDF, 1.2MB)
    • Burnett Mary region (PDF, 1.1MB)
    • Conclusion (PDF, 212.9KB)
    • Appendices (PDF, 565.0KB)
    • References (PDF, 712.7KB)