Experienced Coral Reef Restoration Consulting
Helping you design sustainably!
Experienced Coral Reef Restoration Consulting
Helping you design sustainably!
What We Do
Threat Assesment
Stakeholders Involvement
Threat Assesment
Coral reefs have existed for thousands of years. If a coral reef degrades it is usually due to an external factors that are interfering with its capacity to sustain itself. Identifying and removing or controlling local threats are the first steps to undertake when restoring a reef. Important factors to control are pollution, water quality, tourism and fishing.
Monitoring
Stakeholders Involvement
Threat Assesment
Knowledge is key to understand our surroundings. Monitoring allows us to assess the health of the reef over time and the effects of any changes in/to the environment that are monitored. There are many methods for monitoring, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
Stakeholders Involvement
Stakeholders Involvement
Stakeholders Involvement
Stakeholder involvement and allowing ownership is vital to a project's success. A self regenerating reef is essential for food security. coastal protection and external income such as tourism. Coral farming can assist in accelerating repopulation of a degraded coral reef.
Sexual Propagation
Sexual Propagation
Stakeholders Involvement
We specialize in sexual propagation of corals. Using the innate properties of young coral larvae we collect them and raise them in sheltered/semi-controlled environments to a reproductive size. This is the least invasive method of coral production and can be easily adopted in any environment.
Simplicity
Sexual Propagation
Simplicity
Some systems are beautiful in simplicity. Fewer cogs also means that less can go wrong. This design above is the simplest tool to collect and settle brooder larvae on a slab without removing anything from the sea. The white parts are plankton nets and the top grey part is the slab (settlement substrate).
Complexity
Sexual Propagation
Simplicity
A much more complex structure to collect not only brooder larvae, but also slicks containing coral eggs and sperm is displayed above. Using a method similar to the ocean plastic clean-up, this structure will collect from the sea surface and provide a place for young larvae to settle in relative protected environments.
Toolkits 4 you
Reef Rehabilitation Manual
Coral Reef Restoration Manual
Coral Reef Restoration Manual
A large community of scientist are working on bringing information and know-how to the public, but is mostly focussed on management. The following manuals could potentially prove useful to you if you are considering to restore a coral reef.
Coral Reef Restoration Manual
Coral Reef Restoration Manual
Coral Reef Restoration Manual
A recent published manual by NOAA in cooperation with some of the big players in Coral restoration such as Nature conservancy, Reef resilience network and Environmental protection agency.
A whole list of toolkits
Coral Reef Restoration Manual
A whole list of toolkits
There's no need to do something that other sites do better. So, here's a link to a site that has an overview and links directly to a large and comprehensive list of manuals and toolkits for coral reef management. Curtesy of the Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.