The BeachCare program organises community planting on a number of Gold Coast beaches to help conserve and restore the natural bushland along the Sunshine coast. Surfers Paradise is one of ten sites that is monitored by DuneWatch, a citizen science project established in 2015 by the Griffith Centre for Coastal Management. The sites are visited regularly by community members to revegetate and weed, and monitoring of sites aims to optimise planting efforts and evaluate plant diversity.
Approach
Dune replanting or construction
Geographic context
Bay
Primary objective
Coastal protection and habitat restoration
Coastal hazard
Erosion
Asset vulnerable
Built, natural
Muurmans, M., Leahy, P. & Brinkman, R. (2017). DuneWatch: launching citizen science for sandy dunes on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Aust. J. Marit. Ocean Aff. 9, 120–132 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1080/18366503.2017.1278504