Chubb's charitable arm is funding a multi-habitat coastal restoration project at Shoal Bay on Facing Island, inside Gladstone Harbour. The Great Barrier Reef Foundation will work with Central Queensland University, CSIRO, Griffith University, and OzFish Unlimited to trial seagrass and oyster reef restoration side by side. The aim is to improve water quality, rebuild habitat, and learn whether these methods can scale. The project also highlights blue carbon. Seagrass and coastal wetlands store carbon, and the Foundation says seagrass can capture carbon much faster than tropical rainforests. But the announcement does not include expected carbon volumes or a verification plan. That matters if the work is meant to inform future carbon finance or large-scale restoration. For now, the value is in the evidence it could generate for coastal repair in similar industrial harbours.
