Globally, coral reef restoration activity continues to grow at an incredible rate in response to the fundamental need to preserve and recover reef ecosystem health. Thousands of dedicated practitioners, researchers, and resource managers continue to develop and adopt an ever-advancing toolbox of procedures and processes to increase reef restoration scale and effectiveness.

In 2023, the CRC undertook a strategic review of its structure and operations, and as part of this process, conducted an October survey to better understand current needs of the restoration community. The results shown below are helping the CRC, and others, meet those needs.