OUR STORY
Scaling up coral restoration
In 2017 we predicted that coral restoration would explode as climate change escalated. We launched CRC to keep our community working in sync as our discipline boomed.
Six years later, we are a neutral town hall dedicated to supporting communities and practitioners in implementing impactful coral restoration projects.
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By unifying the brain power and passion of the global restoration community, resilient reefs can be restored and weather climate change faster and better than they would otherwise be.
P.C. Martin Colognolli: Coral Guardian
What is a Community of Practice?
The CRC community of practice is a community that shares the same mission: enabling the coral reef ecosystems to survive the 21st Century and beyond.
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We are an exchange of research and knowledge. We work at a rapid pace so we aren’t redundant.
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We are coral reef restoration practitioners who interact on an ongoing basis in order to share best practices and create new knowledge.
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We gather in face-to-face meetings as well as web-based collaborative environments to communicate, network, and learn.
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We are a network of people with the skills and knowledge necessary to get corals into the water more quickly because the relationships we need are already there. When we hit a roadblock or need to understand what role our science could play, our community knows where to turn.
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We are a community that is global, regional and local. This allows for a diverse membership.
P.C. Coral Restoration Foundation
How We Work
We use surveys, conversations, and social media to listen actively to what our community needs. Then we create and share the products and resources they need to work more strategically and rapidly, like standards, webinars, and training materials.
Our primary audience is restoration practitioners in reef-rich, low-income nations working to keep corals in many pockets of the ocean and a diversity of coral material out on the reefs. But we also help scientists and funders reach the people and corals who need them the most.
We remove traditional gaps in collaborative conservation by ensuring that information sharing is unbridled. We elevate and promote the work of all practitioners so that coral restoration is not dominated by a handful of large-scale, high-tech projects.