Coral reefs in the South, resources in the North. How can we secure a future for corals when the balance is this skewed? Coral reefs serve as vital lifelines for coastal communities, offering sustenance, economic opportunities, and cultural significance to millions worldwide,

Meet the CLIP 2025 Awarded Projects! Andreina Valdez Trinidad from FUNDEMAR in the Dominican Republic leads a project aimed at improving coral growth and survival by providing enhanced food sources, while also rearing sea urchins to help improve the surrounding reef environment.

We're partnering with @doodles to host an art challenge ( • -) • Doopies can smush together into objects as a way of avoiding danger or predators - make something made out of doopies for a chance to win! details ↓

Meet the CLIP 2025 Awarded Projects! Robin Philippo from Tropical Research and Conservation Centre in Malaysia leads a team of researchers aiming to restore sloping coral reefs highly impacted by blast fishing. Coral reefs across Southeast Asia are in critical decline, and one

We are now in year 2 of our @cordap_ coral larval restoration project. During each major spawning period - twice a year in Maldives - we carry out a series of steps — starting with gravid checks: looking for developing eggs. 🪸✨

Meet the CLIP 2025 Awarded Projects! Prof Margarita Brandt from Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador leads a team of researchers who will use a Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) to record coral reef “soundscapes” in the Galápagos, and play back sounds of healthy reefs

Just like us, corals get sick. Around the world, infectious diseases are causing widespread coral loss and weakening the resilience of entire reef ecosystems, often by hindering reproduction and natural recruitment. Several research teams are expanding our understanding of

Meet the CLIP 2025 Awarded Projects! Nur Abu from University of Muhammadiyah Sorong in Indonesia leads a team of researchers studying the extent of water pollution linked to inadequate waste management and the impacts of the rapidly growing tourism industry in Raja Ampat. Since

Meet the CLIP 2025 Awarded Projects! Maria Fernanda Maya from Blue Indigo Foundation in San Andrés, Colombia, leads a team of researchers aiming to develop local probiotics that will boost coral survival after outplanting. In paralel, they will work with the local community to

Meet the CLIP 2025 Awarded Projects! Dr. Ni Kadek Dita Cahyani from Diponegoro University in Indonesia leads a team of researchers aiming to use environmental DNA to study coral spawning patterns in the Karimunjawa Islands. Current monitoring methods are limited and

Meet the CLIP 2025 Awarded Projects! Dr. Pedro Pereira from Projeto Conservação Recifal (PCR) in Brazil leads a team of researchers aiming to help restore Brazilian marginal coral reefs through the use of probiotics. This has never been attempted in the country. Brazil’s

🌊 𝑲𝑴𝑭𝑹𝑰 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑹𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕! 🌊 We’re proud to be part of the Coral Accelerator Program (CAP) 2024, an initiative supporting innovative reef restoration across the globe. One of this year’s

CORDAP awards $1.5 million to 16 breakthrough coral restoration projects https://t.co/pGr5phc9ZP

Meet the CAP 2024 Awarded Projects! Get to know the last project in this year’s cohort, the one led by Dr. Arthur Tuda from Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA). This initiative intends to strengthen the technical, scientific, and governance capacity of

Meet the CAP 2024 Awarded Projects! Get to know another project in this year’s cohort, the one led by Prof. Mark Hay from Georgia Institute of Technology. This initiative focuses on exploring the feasibility of harnessing natural, scalable biotic interactions to combat coral

The Water Quality Solutions for Coastal Habitats workshop kicks off in Fiji! 🇫🇯 Led by Cefas, @CORDAP_, @TheWCS and Nutrient Pollution Global Action Network NP-GAN, the workshop brings together experts to identify knowledge gaps and find water quality solutions. @ukinfiji

Meet the CAP 2024 Awarded Projects! Get to know another project in this year’s cohort, the one led by Dr. Joan Anne Kleypas from Raising Coral Costa Rica. This initiative focuses on engineering substrates made from biopolymers containing CCA*-enriched bacteria and their excreted

Meet the CAP 2024 Awarded Projects! Get to know the second project in this year’s cohort: led by Prof. Scott Bryan from Queensland University of Technology (Australia). This initiative focuses on the most fundamental challenge for a new coral – settling on a stable seabed so

🪸Today is National Coral Day! Congratulations to the international research team led by CUHK, which has been awarded a grant of over HKD 11 million (USD 1.46 million) by the G20 Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform (CORDAP) to develop and scale a cutting-edge

Meet the CAP 2024 Awarded Projects! Get to know another project in this year’s cohort: led by Dr. Austin Bowden-Kerby from Corals for Conservation. The team aims at preventing local extinction of 40 heat-adapted coral species in Fiji, Samoa and Vanuatu, boosting natural recovery