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How You Can Help Coral Reefs for Earth Day & Every Day
By Dr. Madhavi Colton On April 22, 1970, concerned environmentalists came together to create Earth Day to focus on the environment and bring attention to the effects that humans were having on our planet’s ecosystems. The first Earth Day brought 20 million people together to rally for the protection of the environment, and later that…
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Coral Reefs in Roatán Thrive with Clean Water
The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL), our partners in the Bay Islands of Honduras, and the people of Roatán celebrated a major win as a decade of work recently came to fruition when the island passed clean water standards for the first time since monitoring began in 2013. The island of Roatán, part of the Bay…
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Plant a Tree, Save a Coral
Jen Vander Veur is fighting an uphill battle to save coral reefs on the slopes of West Maui’s mountains. Jen is CORAL’s Program Manager in Maui, and she’s leading the charge on restoring Maui’s once lush forest to stabilize the soil and protect coral reefs downstream from being smothered by sediment, reversing the effects of…
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Partnering for Change to Save Coral Reefs
By Dr. Madhavi Colton At CORAL, our mission is Saving the World’s Coral Reefs. That means finding a solution to the biggest threat facing corals today- climate change. Troubled by warming ocean temperatures and mass coral bleaching events, we launched the Modeling Adaptation Potential (MAP) Project in 2016 to ask a critical question: Can…
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The Coral Reef Alliance Announces Appointment of Executive Director
For Immediate Release Thursday, January 16, 2020 CORAL Announces Appointment of Dr. Madhavi Colton as New Executive Director Oakland – The Board of Directors of the Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL), a non-profit leader in coral reef conservation, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Madhavi Colton to Executive Director. She is succeeding Dr. Michael…
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CORAL Announces Appointment of Dr. Madhavi Colton as New Executive Director
The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Madhavi Colton as its fourth Executive Director. Dr. Colton is succeeding Dr. Michael Webster, who has chosen to leave his role to pursue research at New York University on how life can adapt to climate change. “The Board is very excited about…
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Raising Chickens and Bees to Save Coral Reefs
Coral reefs provide an important source of food and income for coastal and island communities around the world. But more than 55 percent of reefs are threatened by overfishing globally. Overfishing not only disrupts the delicate ecology of coral reefs, it also negatively impacts the local communities that depend on them. If fishers are unable…
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Hawaiʻi Wai Ola Citizen Science Program Launches
‘A`ohe hua o ka mai`a i ka lā ho’okaāhi — When a task is done together, no task is too big.” The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) and partners are excited to announce the launch of the Hawaiʻi Wai Ola citizen science program. Hawaiʻi Wai Ola is a collaborative group (called a Hui in Hawaiian) comprised…
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Breaking Study Finds Adaptation Is Possible (& Not Optional) for Coral Reefs
The future of coral reefs doesn’t have to be a death sentence. A groundbreaking study from the Coral Reef Alliance proves what we’ve long believed: when conservation strategies embrace evolution, coral reefs have a fighting chance in a warming world. Published in a peer-reviewed journal, the study—Management for network diversity speeds evolutionary adaptation to climate…