#coral

🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda · AnuBlue

A local nonprofit is regrowing Antigua and Barbuda's coral reefs from four underwater nurseries, one fragment at a time.

🇧🇸 Bahamas · Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF)

For over 30 years this Bahamian foundation has been growing coral nurseries and turning thousands of schoolkids into reef defenders.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Blue Resources Trust

Blue Resources Trust conducts marine research in Sri Lanka on sharks, rays, coral reefs, and seagrass to inform conservation policy.

🇲🇬 Madagascar · Blue Ventures

Marine conservation NGO empowering Madagascar's coastal fishing communities to manage and restore their own reefs and fisheries.

🇧🇧 Barbados · Coral Reef Restoration Alliance (CORALL)

A volunteer-run alliance of Barbadian divers, fishers and residents grows coral fragments in nurseries and transplants them onto the island's degraded west coast reefs.

🇵🇫 French Polynesia · Coral Gardeners

Reef restoration collective from Mo'orea planting climate-resilient corals across French Polynesia and beyond.

🇺🇸 United States · Coral Restoration Foundation

The world's largest reef restoration organization, returning hundreds of thousands of nursery-grown corals to Florida's reefs.

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · Fundación Dominicana de Estudios Marinos (FUNDEMAR)

A Dominican marine NGO breeds coral in a lab and outplants tens of thousands of young corals a year to rebuild reefs battered by bleaching and disease.

🇲🇻 Maldives · Reefscapers (Seamarc)

Marine biologists in the Maldives have hand-planted thousands of steel coral frames to help rebuild reefs bleached by warming seas.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA)

Founded by Hurghada divers in 1992, HEPCA runs the world's largest reef-mooring network and the waste systems that keep the Red Sea's coral coast alive.

🇰🇼 Kuwait · Kuwait Dive Team

A volunteer diving corps that has spent decades hauling ghost nets off Kuwait Bay's coral reefs and mooring boats so anchors stop crushing them.

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea · Mahonia Na Dari Conservation and Research Centre

Papua New Guinea's 'Guardian of the Sea' has spent nearly three decades teaching Kimbe Bay communities to run their own no-take marine reserves in the heart of the Coral Triangle.

🇲🇿 Mozambique · Love The Oceans

A grassroots dive-and-research charity in Jangamo Bay is gathering the reef, fisheries and megafauna data needed to win Mozambique's first Marine Protected Area, while training local women as the district's first female scuba divers.

🇲🇭 Marshall Islands · Marshall Islands Conservation Society (MICS)

Marshallese conservationists are blending traditional atoll knowledge with science to put local communities in charge of their own reefs and fisheries.

🇫🇲 Micronesia · Micronesia Conservation Trust (MCT)

The regional trust fund bankrolling the Micronesia Challenge, moving over $100 million to protect coral reefs and forests across five Pacific nations and territories.

🇸🇬 Singapore · Ocean Purpose Project

Singapore's first Blue Economy social enterprise runs monthly community beach cleanups at Pasir Ris and turns the collected ocean plastic into fuel and hydrogen.

🇭🇳 Honduras · Roatan Marine Park

A community-founded patrol and restoration crew guards the reefs of Roatan and the rest of Honduras's largest marine protected area.

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Marine Conservation Cambodia

From a small island base in the Kep Archipelago, this community-rooted NGO has spent nearly two decades turning trawled-out seabeds back into thriving fishing grounds.

🇯🇲 Jamaica · Alligator Head Foundation

A Jamaican marine NGO nurses staghorn and elkhorn coral in underwater nurseries and guards the fish sanctuary that revived Oracabessa Bay.

🇵🇦 Panama · Mother of Corals

Scientists and dive communities in Bocas del Toro are hand-building artificial reef structures to bring Panama's Caribbean coral back from the brink.

🇲🇾 Malaysia · Reef Check Malaysia

Trains volunteer divers and island communities to survey, restore, and defend Malaysia's coral reefs.

🇲🇺 Mauritius · Reef Conservation

A Mauritian NGO restoring coral reefs, laying eco-friendly mooring buoys and turning the island's schools into a nationwide network of ocean stewards.

🇸🇨 Seychelles · Nature Seychelles

Divers at Cousin Island Special Reserve have grown and transplanted over 32,000 coral fragments to fully revive a hectare of bleached reef.

🇦🇺 Australia · Resilient Reefs Foundation

Volunteer divers grow coral fragments on offshore nurseries near Cairns and replant them onto Great Barrier Reef sections damaged by bleaching and cyclones.

🇧🇿 Belize · Fragments of Hope

A Placencia-based coral nursery network has replanted tens of thousands of resilient corals along the Belize Barrier Reef since 2006.

🇻🇨 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Richmond Vale Academy

A volunteer training school on St. Vincent is rebuilding storm- and disease-battered reefs one hand-planted coral fragment at a time.

🇱🇨 Saint Lucia · Soufrière Marine Management Association (SMMA)

Since 1994 fishers, dive operators and the government have jointly managed Saint Lucia's most valuable reef through a single, zoned marine protected area.

🇹🇭 Thailand · Care for Coral

Two Thai sisters turned a high-school coral-planting project into the country's first youth-led coral restoration nonprofit, taking volunteers underwater to grow reefs from Phuket to Koh Tao.

🇹🇴 Tonga · Vava'u Environmental Protection Association (VEPA)

A Tongan NGO founded by local leaders is turning traditional reef knowledge into a nationwide network of community-run ocean management zones.