Today we headed down for a monitoring and maintenance dive, checking on our coral nurseries and the outplanted coral colonies on the metal cages. This year the structures weathered the intense conditions of the rough season surprisingly well. The main task for the day involved to unentangle all coral fragments that had become twisted around the nursery branches due to heavy surges. We were relieved to find that only about a dozen coral fragments were missing across the entir

After months of preparation and care, we have finally begun outplanting full-grown coral colonies from our coral nurseries onto the 75 coated metal cages that were deployed at the end of 2025. This marks an important step in our reef restoration work. The several species of Pocillopora we are currently outplanting have been grown and monitored in our nurseries. Now, strong enough, they are moved to the artificial reef structures, where they can establish themselves as perm

One of the biggest hurdles for coral larvae worldwide is the lack of natural substrate to settle on. On degraded coral reefs, most of the...