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This work was commissioned by the Great Barrier Marine Park Authority in Gold Coast, Australia, to help with their educational programs. The video uses animation and humorous storytelling to educate viewers about the problem of coral bleaching, a condition threatening the life of coral reefs in the pacific and throughout the world.

Coral has a critical partnership with zooxanthellae algae that absorb sunlight and convert it to energy needed to feed life found in a reef ecosystem. The loss of these algae, a common consequence of pollution or climate change, leaves a reef "bleached" and unable to produce energy from sunlight.

Coral bleaching has increased widely in recent times. Because it often precedes coral death and the loss of the reef itself, conservationists are naturally concerned that many of the world's reefs are in trouble.
 

director: fraser munro
client: great barrier reef authority
agency: great barrier reef authority