Climate Action Dominican Republic Project #10709

Coral Restoration in the Dominican Republic

by Reef Check Dominican Republic

Project Report | Mar 8, 2016
Coral Restoration August to Nov '15 Jan '16

By Ruben Torres | Project Leader

portrait for local campaign

During this period (August to October 2015), a total of US$3,923.74 !!!! (a record for any fund raising period ever, via the Global Giving website from 39 donations, two of them recurring many thanks for the continued support, and special thanks to recurring donors (thank you again Laura and Sayo Aoki). All your donations and giving this coral species a chance.
We conducted from re-fragmentation work in our main coral nursery in La Caleta, in preparation for our holiday season, in which we expect many coral adoptions (as we ended up having, continue reading)
An Adopt-a-coral campaign was developed for this 2016 Christmas holiday season; an adoption kit was created and offered to private companies as gift to offer to their employees and clients. At least 400 corals were adopted using this local campaign.
New efforts are being done to install yet another coral nursery in Boca Chica beach, which will be covered in the next report.

envelope for adoption kit

Adoption kit certificate

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Video for local Adopt-a-coral campaign

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