Guide For Assessing Reef Resilience Maintaining and restoring resilience is now a major focus of most coral reef managers around the world. A focus on resilience gives us options, and hope, in the face of new and often daunting challenges.…
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Stream2Sea Natural Tint Reef Friendly Suncreen Coming Soon
Stream2Sea Natural Tint Wearing sunscreen is a must in the tropics, especially if you are planning a day on the boat snorkeling, or scuba diving. But sunscreen and the chemicals it contains are harmful to marine life and have been found…
Anyone Getting In The Ocean Should Be Using Reef Safe Sunscreen
Reef Safe Sunscreen Anyone who’s spent a day in the tropics, scuba diving, snorkeling or just hanging out on the beach will know that sunscreen is essential. Without applying sunscreen, sunny days, soaring temperatures, and inviting tropical sea’s will inevitably lead to…
Get Merried To The Ocean With Blue Ring
Blue Ring Show your commitment to the ocean with a blue ring! For better or worse, you can now digitally ‘mery’ the ocean with an annual pledge to ocean conservation and exploration. Blue rings are made from supple blue silicone, are…
Stop Using Masking Tape! Make Reusable Tank Caps Instead
Reusable Tank Caps As a recreational scuba diver there are practices within the dive industry which go unnoticed, like how to tell if a scuba take is full or empty? When divers show up ready for the day, scuba tanks…
Fragments Of Hope Belize Wins UN Climate Solutions Award
UN Climate Solutions Award Fragments of Hope, a small not-for-profit community organization based in Placencia, Belize is one of the UN Climate Solutions Award 2017 winners. Their work has focused on identifying and growing temperature tolerant corals for reef restoration.…
Coral Bleaching Hits Mesoamerican Reef
For the past month reports of coral bleaching along the Mesoamerican reef have been making their way to my inbox. From Cancun to Honduras it seems multiple stretches of the worlds second largest coral reef have suffered some degree of…
Healthy Reefs Produce More Baby Corals
A recent study from Curaçao has shown that healthy coral populations can produce up to 200 times more juvenile corals than degraded coral populations. Researchers found that healthy corals had a higher percentage of successful parents which produced up to…
Cordelia Banks Is The Healthiest Caribbean Reef We’ve Ever Seen
Cordelia Bank Cordelia Bank is an extensive coral reef located on the southwest coast of Roatán Honduras. We had the opportunity to dive this protected area and can safely say this is the healthiest Caribbean staghorn reef we've ever seen. Covering 17km2…