Coral Reef Restoration and Protection
Coral Reef Restoration and Protection has raised $9,276 out of their goal of $270,000
The Global Coral Reef Alliance is a worldwide voluntary network of scientists, divers, and communities developing cutting-edge solutions using the Biorock® method for restoring and managing coral reefs and marine ecosystems against global warming, sea level rise, pollution, and disease.
Biorock® is an innovative technology that uses safe, very low-voltage, electrical “trickle” charges to grow and repair marine structures at any scale and to rapidly grow or restore vibrant marine ecosystems. To learn more about the Biorock method, please click here.
GCRA, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, seeks funding for the following critically urgent tasks:
Training local communities in developing countries to use Biorock methods for large-scale marine ecosystem restoration and sustainable mariculture. Details of the ongoing programs listed in the donation tiles below can be found here.
Digitizing and making available the world’s largest collection of coral reef photographs from 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Funding an effort to revisit the original sites and re-document current reef conditions.
This program involves assessing and documenting coral reef health and change by photographs, video, scientific observations, and measurements. Including; Bikini Atoll, Bahamas, Great Barrier Reef, Jamaica, Florida, Palau, Saipan, Belize, Sinai, and other locations.
How To Help Save Coral Reefs
Indonesia $30,000
Our Indonesian partners have been asked to help fishing communities do what they did by restoring their coral reefs, all across the heartland of the world’s finest coral reefs. Funding will allow us to start new projects, and upgrade old ones.
Panama $25,000
The Guna Indians are abandoning a quarter of their islands because of increasing erosion from global sea level rise. GCRA works with them to grow back their coral reefs, beaches, islands, and lobster fisheries.
Jamaica $20,000
GCRA is working with local fishermen to protect the best reef left in Jamaica and grow back the lost coral reefs and fisheries.
Mexico $20,000
The Comca’ac People of the desert shores of the Sea of Cortes survived from the sea for hundreds of years from unique endemic and endangered species. GCRA is working with them to develop more productive sustainable mariculture.
Vanuatu $25,000
The 2016 reef restoration and mariculture training workshop was followed by requests for training from many fishing villages across the islands. Funding will allow local training teams to go to all the islands.
Grenada $10,000
The first reef restoration projects in Grenada and Carriacou will soon be installed. These projects will be expanded to new sites as a training center for the Eastern Caribbean.
Bahamas $30,000
We are helping the North Eleuthera community developing new approaches to mariculture of Caribbean lobsters, conch, fishes, and other species.
Palau $40,000
The Hatahobei people will be helped to save Hotsararie Reef, formerly the most species-rich reef in the Pacific, from being lost to erosion from sea level rise.
Colombia $30,000
A community that has prevented a coal shipping port from being built in their town, will be helped to grow back the coral along their shores.
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