The Queensland government has promised $150,000 to a coral bleaching monitoring program for the Great Barrier Reef.
University of Queensland's CoralWatch will use the funding to continue its monitoring program that allows the public to help scientists and report on the health of the reef.
The non-profit organisation also plans to create an education package for primary schools.
"It will enable us to engage Australian citizens up and down the coast of Queensland ... in a community effort to take back, protect and learn about our reef," CoralWatch founder Professor Justin Marshall said on Saturday.
The announcement comes during a warmer-than-average April that has continued to stress the reef with hotter sea surface temperatures.
It's hoped waters will cool down soon to give the corals a better chance of surviving.
Coral mortality is generally worse in the north and the most severe bleaching has continued in the far northern sector between Cooktown and the tip of Cape York, the Queensland government said.
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