Day tours, water
Red Cat Adventures
High-speed island adventures with restoration baked in.
Joined January 2026
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Love Whitsundays - Regeneration
Enabling our industry and visitors to leave the Whitsundays better than they found it.
Our Regenerative Tourism Program gives every Whitsundays business, event and visitor a direct role in leaving this amazing place better for future generations. Led by Tourism Whitsundays and Reef Catchments, Love Whitsundays - Regeneration connects the economic activity of tourism to the restoration of the incredible ecosystems our industry and community depend upon. Each of the businesses participating in the program have integrated restoration into their product, authentically, with integrity, and in a way that visitors can connect with.
Get involved
Help leave our destination better
Step 1
Local businesses lead the way
The operators on the map below have made restoration part of what they do. When you choose them you're already having an impact.
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Local businesses lead the way
The operators on the map below have made restoration part of what they do. When you choose them you're already having an impact.
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Make that impact yours
See where your impact is located, what benefits its bringing to the environment and community, and show that you support it by engaging.
You can also contribute more
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Our ecosystems thrive
Your visit is helping to restore the natural environment that makes our destination so special. You can keep track here as that impact unfolds over time.
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Come back to see your legacy grow
You've left something positive behind and are now part of our destination story. Come back and see it sometime!
And the cycle continues. Every visit adds to it.
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Look who is leading our impact
Explore the businesses and projects that are part of the program
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These organisations have recently joined the program
Leave your positive legacy
Help us protect and restore our incredible icons.
Plant a native tree.
Fund a native tree to be planted in one of our local habitat restoration projects. This is your tree and your legacy.
Plant a tree
Restore a patch of native habitat.
Have a patch of new native forest restored in your name; any size you like to fit your budget and the positive footprint you want to leave.
Restore a patchFor Whitsundays businesses
Your business belongs in this.
Join the businesses already building restoration into their product. Operators of all sizes are welcome. The program is designed to fit the way tourism businesses actually work.
Whitsunday catchment, QueenslandFeatured project
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Native vegetation planted along the riverbanks and creek lines that drain into the Whitsunday coast and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Restored riparian cover reduces sediment and nutrient runoff, rebuilds habitat corridors for native fauna and improves water quality at the reef.
Delivered by Reef Catchments
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Delivery partner
NRM delivery partner for the Love Whitsundays - Regeneration program, working to sustain, protect and improve natural resources across the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac region for over 22 years. Reef Catchments designs and delivers the restoration work on the ground — from site selection and species sourcing to planting, monitoring and reporting. Every contribution made through the program is directed to verified projects within the Whitsunday catchment.
Learn more about Reef Catchments →The people behind the program.
"The Whitsundays is one of the most extraordinary natural environments on earth and we have a responsibility to protect it. This program is about turning the power of tourism into a genuine force for good, giving every business, every event and every visitor the chance to leave this place better than they found it. We are proud to be leading this alongside Reforest and Reef Catchments, and we look forward to the industry and our community getting behind it."
Tim Booth
Chief Executive Officer, Tourism Whitsundays
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"The connection between catchment health and reef health is not theoretical. It plays out in the water quality data every season. What this program does is make the connection tangible and give an entire industry a way to act on it. That is the kind of collaboration that actually moves outcomes."
Adrienne Rourke
Director Operations, Strategy and Business Development, Reef Catchments
Born of reef and tide, important enough to invest in preserving.
