Climate Action Dominican Republic Project #10709

Coral Restoration in the Dominican Republic

by Reef Check Dominican Republic

Project Report | Sep 16, 2014
Coral Restoration May to July 2014Report

By Ruben Torres | project Leader

Cora fragment at the Bayahibe nursery

During this period (M ay to July 2014), a total of US$265 were received via the Global Giving website from eight donors, one of them recurring many thanks for the continued support, and special thanks to recurring donors (thank you Laura). All your donations and giving this coral species a chance.
One monitoring trip was conducted in las Galeras nursery to check on the conditions of coral fragments collected so far. Most of coral colonies there are doing great, growing very fast, which enable us to create more new colonies.
One monitoring trip was conducted in Juancho nursery to check on the conditions of coral fragments collected so far. Most of coral colonies there are doing great, growing very fast, which enable us to create more new colonies. During this trip, we started coordinating the construction of a new coral nursery for A. palmatta corals, and making the arrangements to do a workshop for community members about coral reef conservation and coral nursery techniques, so they can use the existing nursery as a tool to attract visitors to the area and show them what the community is doing to conserve corals.
A new donor will be supporting the Juancho coral nursery, they are EGE Haina, a electricity generating company, that established the first wind mills in the Cocos-Juancho area, making them a model to create energy on a large scale using the wind.
A new coral nursery was established in Bayahibe, in coordination with Coral Point Divers. This one was made out of rope given previous growth rates success in that same area from existing coral nurseries managed by FUNDEMAR.
See pictures from this reporting period.

Coral fragment at las Galeras nursery

Galeras Diver Serge cleaning and measuring corals

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