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Withstanding the waves with metal

One of the challenges we have faced in our coral reef restoration efforts is finding a suitable structure for outplanting corals. In the...

Outplanting corals to bottles

Today, our marine biologists Luna and Nancy embarked on an exciting coral reef restoration project. After carefully harvesting a...

Christmas workshops for children

Christmas is a time for celebrating and giving back, and what better way to do that than by participating in some fun and meaningful...

Creating awareness among fishermen

Coral reefs are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet, supporting a wide range of marine life and serving as important...

Positive feedback on our pilot

Tinka Murk, professor dr. in Marine Animal Ecology at Wageningen University and one of the REEFolution Foundation's advisors, visited our...

Ghost net recovered from donor reef

By the end of an orientation dive on our donor site we came across a fishing net at the reef. The 20 meter long net seemed to be...

Involvement Beach Management Units

This month we were invited for a few meetings by the chairmen of the Beach Management Units (BMU) overseeing the fishing and watersport...

Marine biologist / Divemaster volunteer position

We are looking for a graduated marine biologist with a special interest in corals to help out with our coral reef restoration pilot...

Looking after our coral nurseries

The weather conditions haven't been much better in the period of August and September, but we found a few good opportunities to get out...

Reef Ranger trainees going down under

Congratulations to our new PADI Open Water Divers, Cathrine, Nancy, Evans, Collins and Lireway! These local trainees are doing our reef...

Fingers crossed and ropes entangled

The weather conditions in June and July are generally not the best for diving in Diani, so we hadn't been able to check upon our coral...

Training to splash in the ocean

Every day at Swahili Beach we organize swimming classes for our reef trainees. Since they want to become open water divers they need to...

Glass bottle reef recycling

During a full day workshop at Swahili Beach we have produced 10 bottle reefs out of empty glass bottles. Currently there is no system in...

Attacked by unknown sea creature

During a maintenance dive last week we noticed that six of our coral tree nurseries were barely buoyant. We discovered that all the white...

Skeleton walls at secondary school

Last Wednesday we visited the Perani Secondary school near Lunga Lunga to teach 150 students about coral reefs and the importance to...

First Reef Ranger Training Program

On June 6th we were excited to welcome 5 enthusiastic trainees for our Reef Ranger training program at Swahili Beach resort in Diani....

Fish trap turns into fish shelter

For a new experiment we asked our captain Ali if he could arrange a traditional fishing trap for us. Not to catch fish, but to create an...

Students on a swahili beach safari

On Saturday May 14th we were visited by 40 talented students from Perani Secondary and Lunga Lunga Secondary school. These local students...

Water activities for Lost in Diani event

Once in a while we're organizing one of the activities for a Lost in Diani event at Swahili Beach. Our activity is all about coral reef...

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