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Advancing Coral Seeding Technology in the Caribbean

November 2023 - 2026 We've joined forces with Fundación Dominicana de Estudios Marinos (FUNDEMAR) and SECORE International to implement innovative approaches for large scale coral restoration. We're focused on refining each step of the Coral Seeding process and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.  Our overall goal is to scale up the impact of coral restoration efforts in ...

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Building Reef Resilience & Community: A 5-Year Project

We are working on a 5-year project [2023 - 2027] funded by the Dutch national and Bonaire municipal governments, aimed at assisting the recovery of the reefs within the Bonaire National Marine Park boundaries. The project focuses on enhancing coral diversity and abundance, fostering collaboration, while building our restoration community. We’ve pinpointed 4 tangible restoration ...

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Propagating Larvae

Coral sexual reproduction as a restoration method The larval propagation program uses coral sexual reproduction as a restoration method which allows us to work with numerous coral species and morphologies. This method increases the genetic diversity of corals on reefs and potentially scales up the number of corals we can outplant. Genetic diversity on coral ...

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Propagating Fragments

Harnessing the natural process of fragmentation to propagate large numbers of corals Coral propagation by fragmentation is the restoration technique that we began our project with in 2012. This method is based on the asexual reproduction of corals and allows us to harness the natural process of fragmentation to propagate large numbers of corals. It ...

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Coral Spawning

A critical part of larval propagation and a benchmark of coral health is coral spawning. Spawning is the synchronized release of eggs and sperm or larvae into the water column. It takes a lot of energy for corals to engage in spawning, so corals only spawn when they are mature and healthy. In the last ...

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