Where Your Donation Will Go in 2025
We’re beyond excited to dive into another year of protecting our ocean’s gems—and it’s all thanks to you! Every donation you make fuels our mission to keep coral reefs thriving and full of life. In 2025, we’re kicking things up a notch with a strategic focus to Assess, Protect, and Restore coral reefs—three powerful ways your contributions will make an impactful difference.
Here’s a sneak peek at how your support is driving real change and concrete outcomes next year!
Assess: Understanding and Accelerating Change
Here at CORAL, we’re committed to using data and research to inform the most effective conservation efforts. In 2025, as we assess coral health, water quality, and adaptation potential, your support will be instrumental in:
- Catalyzing Change: We’ve done the heavy lifting and learned a lot along the way, and our team is on track to replicate CORAL’s impact on a broader scale. In 2025, we’ll launch projects in new geographies, scaling our way to 2030, starting with a list of priority projects aimed at Clean Water for Reefs and Sustainable Fisheries.
- Strengthening Partnerships: A new robust partnership framework will guide partnerships and regional collaborations, ensuring all interventions are based on sound science and community needs.
- Driving Climate Adaptation Science: Your donations will support our ongoing research to estimate a reef’s adaptive capacity using freely available, remotely sensed data – a game changing tool for reef-dependent communities.
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Through these initiatives, our goal is to scale what we know works, providing communities and ecosystems with the knowledge, data, and tools to thrive.
Protect: Increasing Protections & Resilience of Communities
Protecting coral reefs and the communities who rely on them is critical to our mission. With your support, in 2025, we will continue to ensure effective protection of marine areas and build community leaders for long-term guardianship of coral reef ecosystems. With your donations, we will:
- Rezone Protected Areas: Your donations this season will support development of a cutting-edge model to inform climate-resilient marine spatial planning in the Western Caribbean. Through this collaborative effort, we’ll drive protected area rezoning initiatives that prioritize climate adaptation.
- Bolster Marine Protections: With your support, we will not only establish critical protected zones but also strengthen effectiveness with patrolling and enforcement of regulations. We work to ensure protections are upheld and reefs are shielded from harmful activities.
- Enact Climate-Smart Policies: Your donations support our initiatives to encourage ‘climate-smart’ conservation policies and projects that consider genetic diversity within existing 30×30 commitments, thereby increasing long-term coral reef survival via adaptation.
- Build Local Coalitions and Technical Assistance: We’re committed to strengthening local capacity in 2025 by providing funding and expertise to our network of regional partners.
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These efforts will protect vital coral habitats, demonstrating how practical, community-driven interventions can achieve lasting protection.
Restore: Rebuilding Resilient Coral Ecosystems
Restoring coral reefs is about more than just rebuilding ecosystems—it’s about ensuring healthy, adaptive reefs that support long-term ocean vitality. In 2025, CORAL is leading this charge with innovative research and sustainable management practices to tackle the biggest threats to reefs. Here’s what we’ll accomplish together:
- Ecosystem Restoration: In Hawai‘i, our team will ramp up essential projects and partnerships focused on watershed and fishpond restoration, expanding efforts to three new fishponds to restore and enhance the health of surrounding coral reefs.
- Clean Water Threat Reduction: We are working to secure $1.9 million to fund wastewater management solutions in five new communities, treating an additional 200 million gallons of wastewater each year(!!)—protecting coral reefs and the people who rely on them.
- Sustainable Fishing Threat Reduction: With your support, we will advocate for the Mesoamerican Reef to be designated a Particularly Sensitive Sea Area (PSSA), which would provide this biodiverse region with increased protections against shipping impacts and pollution, helping shield fisheries, local communities, and vital reef habitats.
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Guided by NOAA’s definition of coral reef restoration as the “process of assisting the recovery of coral reefs that have been degraded, damaged, or destroyed,” our efforts focus on nurturing ecosystems back to health and resilience by reducing threats. Our projects are designed to create and expand protected areas, preserve fish populations, and support community-led, climate-smart conservation efforts, resulting in long-lasting stewardship of coral reef ecosystems.
Coral reefs need you NOW more than ever.
You can be a part of this transformative mission by donating today. Your unwavering support drives our work, and we invite you to be a vital force in protecting coral reefs in 2025 and beyond.
