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2022 Executive Summary
2021 Executive Summary
Update September, 2021
Spawning in the Caribbean of Costa Rica.
In August and September our team, along with the officials from Cahuita National Park and SINAC, monitored the spawning (massive reproductive event) of the corals in the Cahuita reef.
In August we witnessed the release of gametes (ovules and sperm) by the coral brain (Clivosa Pseudodiplia).
This record is one the first for our country. Being witnesses that our corals are reproducing sexually makes us hopeful! It will allow us to lay the foundations for the study of its reproductive ecology, a key aspect in reef restoration practices.
Update June, 2021
New coral nursery in the Southern Caribbean of Costa Rica. We recently started a new coral restoration project in our beautiful Southern Caribbean together with our friends from Cahuita National Park!
The Cahuita reef is one of the most developed, extensive and important reefs in our country, but it is also one of the most deteriorated. We must join conservation and restoration efforts to safeguard the integrity of our reefs and the people who depend on them.
We thank the #Adapta2+ program, implemented by Fundecooperación para el Desarrollo Sostenible with funds from the #AdaptationFund for supporting and enabling the work of Raising Coral Costa Rica, as well as the support of the German Development Cooperation GIZ Costa Rica Biodiversidad y Negocios - GIZ. We hope we can continue to reap many successes (and corals) in the next decade, which was declared as the decade of restoration by the United Nations.
Update May, 2021
Training course in Golfo Dulce. Our team organized a 9 day theorical and practical training course about coral restoration and ecoturism in Golfo Dulce.
Thanks to Fundecooperación para el Desarrollo Sostenible, the participants got a scholarship to be part of the course.
We hope to replicate this course to create more capacities in the communities about coral restoration, ecoturism and much more!
