Abbreviation | RLS |
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Purpose | Marine life monitoring programme |
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Region | Tasmania |
Website | reeflifesurvey |
Reef Life Survey is a marine life monitoring programme[1] based in Hobart, Tasmania. It is international in scope, but predominantly Australian, as a large proportion of the volunteers are Australian. Most of the surveys are done by volunteer recreational divers, collecting biodiversity data for marine conservation. The database is available to marine ecology researchers, and is used by several marine protected area managements in Australia,[2][3] New Zealand, American Samoa and the eastern Pacific.