Florida Reef Resilience Program

Florida Reef Resilience Program (FRRP) is a collaborative effort among scientists, resource managers, conservation organizations, and reef users to develop strategies for coping with climate change and other stresses on Florida’s coral reefs. The strategies are resilience-based, meaning information about corals that are surviving and thriving – bouncing back after trouble like bleaching – is used to direct protection efforts.
Due to their importance as a fast-growing reef builder, the Conservancy began working with a Key Largo-partner to grow this species in an underwater nursery to restore them to their former abundance

To date we have over 50,000 corals in eight nursery locations and have outplanted over 13,000 colonies to the reef.
Click here here to see coral reef nurseries
Or better yet, donate and/or support for Reef Resilience Program by clicking on this link
(source: www. nature. org)

Estimates of costs and benefits of restoration projects

The benefit of coral reef restoration is greater than the cost in the long run
Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA) is a tool for organizing information on the relative value of alternative public investments like environmental restoration projects. When the value of all significant benefits and costs can be expressed in monetary terms, the net value (benefits minus costs) of the alternatives under consideration can be computed and used to identify the alternative that yields the greatest increase in public welfare.
However, since environmental goods and services are not commonly bought or sold in the marketplace, it can be difficult to express the outputs of an environmental restoration project in monetary terms. 
(source: http://www.edc.uri.edu/restoration/html/tech_sci/socio/bca.htm)

Coral Reef Restoration Effort for Florida Keys

This video will show how people protect Florida Keys, one of the largest coral reefs in the world. Through this video, we will understand how to systematically grow and protect coral reefs. The challenges in recruitment volunteer, monitoring, and protection against white band disease.

Use more public transportation

If humans reduce the consumption of carbon dioxide emissions, it will decrease the greenhouse gases level.

A possible  action one should do in order to keep the corals reefs around the world from getting destroyed is by fishing in a smart way. 

Nature Is Speaking

Actions Needed to Preserve Coral Reefs

Reducing greenhouse gases will be required to avoid irreversible effects climate-change has had on coral reefs.

 We will need to monitor climate change and ocean acidification, and project their impacts on ecological and human systems.

We need to develop ways to address these impacts that support local, national, and international policy. 

As well as take urgent actions to reduce the impact of elevated greenhouse gases on coral reef ecosystems.

Fishing impacts in coral reef areas, is ecologically unsustainable, and has lead to the depletion of key functional fish species in many locations.


 Minimizing negative fishing impacts throughout coral reef ecosystems is critical to revitalizing and protecting coral reef resources for current and future generations.

Problems facing coral reef ecosystems from land-based sources of pollution is broad and includes sediment, nutrients, and other pollutants, originating from a variety of land-based activities, that are transported in surface waters, runoff, groundwater seepage, and atmospheric deposition into coastal waters.

Controlling land-based sources of pollution through watershed management takes a concerted effort by all parties including local, state, federal and non-governmental organizations.

 Practices might include voluntary or regulatory activities on agricultural, public, private, urban or protected lands

For some people, seafood might just a part of meal plans, an option. For Pere villager, fish is their lives. "Titan of the Coral Sea" introduces the role of traditional fishing and modern fishing. The development in fishing techniques brings many challenges and opportunities to the Pere community and the fisheries ecosystem.
The use of spear-guns and underwater flashlights have ruined the reef and the fish population have dispersed into deeper ocean.
Fortunately, the threats have been found and conservation fish population have been established.
Click on this video below to learn more about their stories and their journey back to traditional fishing to protect the fisheries ecosystem.

Click here to help out Kekwa Clan and their fisheries

source: http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/asiaandthepacific/papuanewguinea/explore/stories-of-hope-for-fish-and-people.xml#video1