Science Progress Report 2025-2026
63 Pages
Science reports
The numbers behind the programmes
Annual reports covering every research programme and the survey data that came out of it.
Science Progress Report 2024–2025
50 pages.
Science Progress Report 2023–2024
34 pages.
Science Progress Report 2022–2023
25 pages.
What's in them
The 2024–2025 report records 11 science projects running in parallel and a severe bleaching event that began in November 2024 on the western side of the Dampier Strait — captured as it happened, because the bleaching monitoring programme had been established the year before with NOAA Coral Reef Watch collaborators.
1,351
kg of marine debris
Collected in 2024
71
Reef Check surveys
Across all monitored sites, 2024
1,800+
manta rays identified
Raja Ampat holds the world's second largest reef manta population
558
black coral sightings
Four target species around Arborek
11
science projects
Running in parallel
Figures from the 2024–2025 Science Progress Report. Both the 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 reports are also published in Bahasa Indonesia.
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