The Paintings of Liza's Reef

Hope For The Oceans


 

Hope For The Rain Forests

Lee  James  Pantas

Who Liza's Reef Is Helping

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THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE (CORAL) is a member-supported, non-profit organization, dedicated to protecting the health of coral reefs by integrating ecosystem management, sustainable tourism, and community partnerships. CORAL works with communities to identify and solve conservation challenges; changes attitudes and behavior through education and training; provides resources to strengthen conservation efforts; and creates incentives for sustainable tourism.

THE SCOPE OF CORAL is international and extends globally. Programs currently operate in six geographic project sites:  Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Hawaii, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea.  While high biodiversity and the presence of marine tourism play a big part in identifying potential project sites, a good deal more is involved in their analysis.  Site selection is determined by evaluating potential destinations for political stability and safety, type of threats, funding availability, local support for marine protected area, and the presence of potential conservation partner organizations.

THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE PROJECT SITES WORLDWIDE

THEIR APPROACH TO SAVING CORAL REEFS: The Coral Reef Sustainable Destination (CRSD) model represents CORAL's strategic approach to coral conservation.  The goal of the CRSD model is to measurably increase the capacity of marine recreation providers, reef managers, and local communities to work collaboratively towards coral reef conservation.  Upon completion of work, destinations will have the fundamental skills and capacity to implement effective and financially sustainable coral conservation strategies.  

CORAL's comprehensive CRSD model establishes six broad indicators to measure the sustainability of the destination, along with five levels of conservation capacity that can be observed and measured.  Prior to working with a site, CORAL identifies a coral destination's existing capacity to achieve objectives along a continuum of increasing sustainability.

Their unique approach of engaging local communities through education, building cooperative alliances among stakeholders, and implementing conservation programs strives to move each site along this continuum.  Key indicators of progress towards each objective allows CORAL researchers to identify program success.

CORAL Website: www.coral.org
Telephone: 415-834-0900, 800-CORAL-REEF
Address: 417 Montgomery Street, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94104
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