Copyright

Pattern

© Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 1996 - 2025.
This information contained on this website, and any websites linked to this website, is protected by copyright.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (the Reef Authority) encourages the dissemination, exchange and reuse of its information (including data) where possible.

The Commonwealth of Australia owns the copyright in all material produced by the Reef Authority and the Reef Authority reserves the right to set the terms and conditions for the use of this material. Unless otherwise stated, all material on this website is licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence with the exception of:

  • the Commonwealth Coat of Arms,
  • the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's logo,
  • any material protected by a trade mark,
  • content and material supplied by third parties including photographs.

Using the Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Australia

The terms of use for the Coat of Arms of the Commonwealth of Australia are available from the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet website.

Attribution

You must attribute the Reef Authority on any copyright material obtained on this website in the following manner:
© Commonwealth of Australia (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority) 1996-2025

Citing/Referencing Website Pages

You may link and reference to the Reef Authority's Reef Knowledge System website using the below reference format:
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Year (site created or revised), Reef Knowledge System, Title of page, viewed date (dd/mm/yyyy), <url>.

You may link and reference Reef Authority's datasets using the below reference format:
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority Year, Dataset name [dataset], <url>.

Third-Party Material

As far as practicable, material for which the copyright is owned by a third party will be clearly labelled in alternative text, as the copyright remains with that party. Their permission may be required to use the material and you should contact that party directly or make an enquiry in writing to the Reef Authority at the address listed below.

Photos and images on our website

We feature a range of photos and video on our website, including content generated by our staff and others such as:

  • Photograph clownfish and anemone, used on Eye on the Reef and taken by Chris Jones
  • Video explore the Great Barrier Reef, used on the homepage and owned by Johnny Gaskell
  • Some photographs used on landing pages purchased from Shutterstock, credited with Shutterstock ID number

If you wish to use a photo or video, please view those available in our online image collection.

Enquiries

For further enquiries concerning the reproduction and rights in the Reef Authority’s products and services, please contact:
info@gbrmpa.gov.au

Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 all other rights are reserved.

Requests for further authorisation should be directed to:

The Director
Communications and Regional Engagement Section
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
PO Box 1379
Townsville QLD 4810
Australia

Linking Guidelines

The Reef Authority appreciates that people find value in our websites and that they may wish to share this information with others by providing a link on their page. Therefore, organisations and individuals are free to include our link on their site without prior permission within the following guidelines.

Unless we enter into a specific written agreement with you, you may not use any of the Reef Authority's names, logos, designs, slogans, product trademarks or service marks in or with your links, except that you may link to a Reef Authority site using the plain text name of that site or the plain text name of the Reef Authority or the plain text page title.

Do not present the link to the Reef Authority's site in any way that suggests the Reef Authority has any relationship or affiliation with your site or endorses, sponsors or recommends the information, products or services on your site without the prior express written permission for a particular use from the Reef Authority.

Do not use any of the Reef Authority's names, logos, designs, slogans, product trademarks or service marks in any advertising, publicity, promotion, or in any other commercial manner without the prior express written permission for a particular use from the Reef Authority.

Do not use any of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority's names, logos, designs, slogans, product trademark or service marks, or any other words or codes identifying the Reef Authority's web sites in any "metatags" or other information used by search engines or other information location tools to identify and select sites, without the Reef Authority's express written permission.

If your site uses frames, the Reef Authority expressly prohibits the display of any of its HTML pages within in-lines or frames of the linking website and any attempt to do so is a violation of our copyright.

The Reef Authority expressly prohibits the referencing of images directly from its server. Rather, where copyright permits we would ask that you transfer the image to your own server and reference it from there.

Upon establishing the link, e-mail the address at which the link is located to info@gbrmpa.gov.au

Requests for further authorisation should be directed to:

The Director
Communications and Regional Engagement Section
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
P.O. Box 1379
Townsville, Qld. 4810.
Australia.
or by e-mail to info@gbrmpa.gov.au