In response to the ongoing damage to coral reefs and the consequences on sand erosion, hotel industries in Mauritius have started to engage on beach and lagoonal rehabilitation works as well as coral farming as being a major part of conservation strategies. The project consisted of two parts. First,...

St Martin’s Island is the only coral habitat in Bangladesh marine water. There are 66 known coral species under 22 genera and 15 sclerectinian coral families. During the last decade tourism spread all over the north zone of the island and in winter month’s mass tourism hampers the coral growth t...

Maldivian hermatypic coral reefs have been exposed to disturbances for more than two centuries (Brown and Dunne 1988). Coral is not only the basis of which the Maldives is formed but, historically the founding blocks for houses, businesses, and mosques (Sluka and Miller 1998). Subsequent to the firs...

Historically, the transplantation of coral from surrounding reefs has been thought to degrade source areas and jeopardize donor colonies. The Reef Runway Coral Nursery is a novel coral nursery concept designed to aid in coral restoration efforts in response to reef injuries by harboring corals of op...

The coral reefs of Florida and the Caribbean have seen upwards of 95% decline in hard coral cover over the last several decades. This decline has been attributed to multiple, compounding, anthropogenic factors including but not limited to climate change, water pollution, and overfishing. This unprec...

The juxtaposition of the continental U.S.’s only living bank-barrier reef with the significant South Florida population center of over 6.5 million people presents unique challenges for resource managers. Expanding commercial and private development combined with necessary infrastructure repairs to...

Global deterioration of coral reefs globally due to a variety of variables has put this critical ocean ecosystem at risk. To combat this decline large-scale global action and restoration methods are being implemented. In this study, we attempt to rehabilitate coral reefs surrounding the Dutch Caribb...

October 2017 saw the start of Colombia's largest coral reef rehabilitation project via coral gardening. The project objective is to upscale coral reef restoration actions in the San Andres, Providencia and Santa Catalina Archipelago to accelerate the natural recovery of intervened reefs, promote ada...

The Great Barrier Reef’s back-to-back bleaching events (2016/17) have seen a shift towards more interventions and restoration project to save the Reef. With traditional media still holding gatekeeper roles, the Twittersphere has become an ideal space to debate the merits of Reef restoration resear...

The non-profit Coral Restoration Foundation Bonaire (CRFB) uses offshore coral nursery and outplanting techniques to enhance the population of critically endangered Acropora corals. Combining science, education, and eco-tourism, this successful model engages local stakeholders and recreational diver...

The U.S. Territory of American Samoa is located in the Central South Pacific and consists of five high volcanic islands and two atolls, forming the easterly portion of an archipelago shared with independent Samoa. Historically, American Samoa has strong ecological, economical, and cultural reliance ...

In recent years, a series of natural and anthropogenic disturbances have caused damage to the only coral reef barrier in the Gulf of California, located at Cabo Pulmo National Park. Therefore, the administration of the protected area considered the implementation of management actions intended to re...

Reef restoration efforts are of most importance for those areas of high touristic visitation. Especially when operations occur in great numbers and during peaks hours and holiday seasons. Probability of impacts increases when either compliance level is low or there are surveillance or patrol problem...

Over the last four decades the biota of the Florida Reef Tract has suffered from a number of disturbances and stresses, including disease outbreaks, warm-water bleaching events, storms and hurricanes, outbreaks of coral predators, winter cold spells, and a host of direct and indirect anthropogenic i...

The fringing reefs of the Andaman Islands have, in the recent past, been subject to overfishing, siltation, and El-Nino related mass bleaching events. Reefs here have been in decline with reports showing decreasing live coral cover from 80% in 1998 to 41.9% in 2011. The project started in November 2...

Coral propagation efforts for restoration and species recovery in Puerto Rico have increased over the last few decades from a few scattered pilot projects to sustained nursery operations producing thousands of corals annually for outplanting. We report on an effort to scale-up propagation using in-s...

Coral reefs are complex and productive ecosystems that encompass the highest biodiversity of any marine ecosystem. Unfortunately, 2010-2016 bleaching events seriously affected coral reefs health of the Republic of Maldives, including the coral reefs surrounding Magoodhoo Island, Faafu Atoll. This st...

I have visited over a dozen coral restorations programs in 2018, documenting each program's management goals, and propagation and out-planting methods, and learning more about what makes each unique. My qualitative research, including follow-up interviews, shows that each organization uses methods s...

Coral reefs around the world are disappearing at an alarming rate, reducing its services to marine biodiversity and human communities. Coral researches, managers and conservationists have been implementing coral restoration methods to help deteriorated reefs go back to functional states or to recove...

Coral communities are productive ecosystems and are recognized for their wide distribution. In the Mexican Pacific there is a relatively low diversity of coral species, but they are adapted to thermal anomalies that under normal conditions cause bleaching. Despite having suffered damage from the str...

The degradation of coral reefs worldwide has accelerated efforts to find cost effective and adequate methodologies for restoring reefs. Coral reefs are declining from rising sea temperatures, massive storm events and vessel groundings. There are several styles of coral nurseries, but there are no st...

Millions of dollars have been invested in restoring the Florida reef tract by ‘re-seeding’ reefs with nursery raised corals. However, both wild and nursery raised corals must survive significant environmental changes and extensive threats within the reef environment in order to reproduce and con...

Gulf of Mannar is one of the four major coral reef areas in India. Out of an area of 110 km2, 32 km2 has been degraded due mainly to mining and destructive fishing practices. Low-tech and low-cost transplantation techniques using artificial substrates like concrete frames and fish houses were standa...

Reef restoration programs require a supply of coral colonies for their implementation. Most of these efforts obtain colonies from the natural environment, limiting production goals. Recently, marine nurseries being established to propagate corals and to keep a stock available for out-planting them i...

Tropical cyclones cause great damage to coral reefs due to the rupture of coral colonies and the transport of materials from land. Recovery actions that are implemented immediately after this kind of events reduce the probability of death of several damaged colonies. In order to minimize the impact ...