While The King’s Trust Australia’s Get Into Reef Conservation Programme is indeed tailored to reef conservation and land management, it provides so much more. The programme aims to equip young First Nations Peoples with the skills and confidence to find employment in any industry!
The programme honours First Nations stewardship and exposes participants to a mixture of traditional and modern reef conservation techniques, all while connecting them with Traditional Owners, reef conservationists, and scientists. The participants learn hard skills needed for conserving Sea Country, including reef surveys, coral propagation, and diving, all onsite at the Great Barrier Reef. Additionally, the programme helps build soft skills such as communication, collaboration, and critical thinking; prowess that is essential to any career.
We’re delighted to share that 90% of the latest cohort have found employment! Check out their updates below:
- Grace is employed full time as a Coral BioBank Aquarist.
- Joy and Jamahli work on a Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (COTS) control boat.
- Lexi is employed full time at Citizens of the Reef.
- Locky and Bray are working in land management.
- Jaylen works as a part of Road Traffic Control.
- David is preparing to start work as a diver in a lobster fishery.
- Latrell is working as a Cultural Dancer, in addition to his work as a landscape gardener.
Congratulations to all Get Into Reef Conservation graduates– the future of our planet is in very capable hands!
