Coral reefs provide coastal protection for communities, habitat for fish, and millions of dollars in recreation and tourism, among other benefits.
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FLED/Dive Center Coral Restoration Project |
Saving and restoring the coral reefs requires a serious collaboration approach that ranges from the local to the executive level. We have a notable successes at the local level, we still need to have more effort to make significant impacts at the ecosystem level. We need to increase resources dedicated to restoration, that's why we partner with local divers. At the same time, we need to significantly increase the efficiency of every money spent and every minute a diver spends underwater. This will require new ways of thinking and advances at a quicker pace than we have seen to date.
These are the different ways we done in coral restoration project which includes, Coral Nurseries, Coral fragments which are collected from healthy donor colonies and placed in underwater nurseries to grow and propagate. Once the fragments reach a suitable size, they are out-planted onto the target restoration site.
Some of these corals have adaptations to survive coral bleaching. They have their own natural protection. They produce a kind of sunblock, called a fluorescent pigment. These pigments control the amount of light entering the coral tissue by reflecting visible and harmful UV rays.
Coral reefs are damaged due to changing water temperatures, ocean acidification, pollution, invasive species, changing weather patterns, and physical impacts from ship groundings and storms.
The world has lost a dangerous percentage of its coral reefs already. Without significant intervention, tropical reef ecosystems could face global extinction by the end of the century.
Hundreds of millions of people depend on coral reefs for food, livelihoods, cultural practices, and a variety of economic benefits. Corals also provide habitat for fish and other marine species and protection for valuable coastal infrastructure.
We are a diving company, diving is rich, enjoying a rainbow colored coral reefs is every diver’s dream. We travel to inter islands to experience them, leaving us in awe of how staggeringly beautiful they are. Imagining our oceans without them is simply would break our hearts.
FLED Dive Center Coral Restoration leads the coral research, conservation, and restoration efforts. The program’s plan outlines a foundation for reducing the main threats to coral reef ecosystems; climate change, fishing impacts, and land-based sources of pollution.
Our proposed action for Coral Restoration Project
Improving habitat quality for corals. This includes supporting research and development of activities that will reduce nuisance and invasive species that compete with corals for habitat. We closely collaborate with the local divers and government agency if available.
Preventing loss of corals and their habitat. Identifying high-risk areas, supporting emergency response, and recovering damages from physical events such as vessel groundings all play a role in reducing damage to coral reefs. Since we also offer underwater industrial works we work out with client towards environmental cause.
Enhancing coral population resilience. Research and development of innovative techniques will help improve the resilience and reduce the mortality of coral larvae. In addition, we are building partnerships to help conduct restoration at ecologically meaningful scales. We keep making friend with our local fisher-folks that in-spite with the economic problem we urge them not to desperately hurt the coral our own good.
Improving coral health and survival. Improving techniques that control the spread of coral diseases and reduce the impacts of organisms that feed on corals will help improve survival rates for corals at key reef sites. We partner with marine biologist to give us scientific data for our coral restoration projects.
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FLED/Dive Center Coral Reef Restoration Project 2024 |
Reef-building corals have a mutualistic relationship with zooxanthellae, microscopic algae that live with coral polyp's tissues. Both the polyp and the zooanthellae benefit. For this reason, reef-building corals are found only in areas where symbiotic zooxanthellae can take in light for photosynthesis.
Through photosynthesis, zooxanthellae convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and carbohydrates. The coral polyp uses carbohydrates as a nutrient. The polyp also uses oxygen for respiration and in turns, returns carbon dioxide to the zooxanthellae. Through this exchange, coral saves energy that would otherwise be used to eliminate the carbon dioxide.
Zooxanthellae also promote polyp calcification by removing carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. Under optimum conditions, this enhanced calcification builds the reef faster than it can be eroded by physical or physical or biological factors.
Most coral polyps attach themselves to a hard substrate and remain there for life.
Corals compete for living space on the reef. Some soft corals secrete toxins to eliminate competitors. Some reef-building corals can actually digest the tissue of an invading coral. Certain toxic compounds in soft corals (Order Alcyonacea) may make the corals unappetizing and deter predators.
We work with our partners to collect detached corals—whether broken fragments or fully-formed colonies—and grow them in dense coral nurseries. The corals are then reattached to reefs piece by piece with cement, zip ties, and nails.
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FLED/Dive Center Coral Reef Restoration Project |
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FLED/Dive Center Coral Reef Restoration Project |
We help our government and local organizations conduct coral restoration projects in their communities. We often partnered with local organizations, governments, and municipal agencies. This enables us to effectively leverage funding and build local capacity and stewardship to restore and improve coral reef ecosystems.
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