Corals
Biri Initiative Coral Restoration Project 250
UN Releases New Guide For Assessing Reef Resilience
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
Caribbean Coral Diaries – Fire Coral
Fire coral (Millepora sp.) is the VERY FIRST coral every scuba diver should learn to identify. These fuzzy orange corals hide a fierce sting and should be avoided at all cost. Colonies have a smooth surface with a pale yellow to…
How To Identify 20 Stony Corals From Indonesia
Often scuba divers focus on tiny critters, schools of fish, or jumbo-sized creatures like whales, dolphins, and sharks. This leaves corals to get lumped together under a single term ‘coral reef’ which is far too general to describe the hundreds of individual…
Cordelia Banks Is The Healthiest Caribbean Reef We’ve Ever Seen
Learn Coral Identification Basics On Scuba Diver Life
Want to learn the basics of Coral Identification? Check out my author page on the website Scuba Diver Life! For the past few months, I’ve been contributing articles around the web for anyone interested in coral identification. On this website, ReefDivers,…