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Global Coral Reef
Alliance The Global Coral Reef Alliance is a small, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to growing, protecting and managing the most threatened of all marine ecosystems—coral reefs. Founded in 1990. GCRA is a coalition of volunteer scientists, divers, environmentalists and other individuals and organizations, committed to coral reef preservation. We primarily focus on coral reef restoration, marine diseases and other issues caused by global climate change, environmental stress and pollution. We employ a method which allows reefs to survive and recover from damage caused by excessive nutrients, climate change, and physical destruction. The mineral accretion, or the Biorock® Process, is owned by Biorock®, Inc. and is licensed to GCRA. This technology has been successfully applied to fish and shellfish mariculture as well as to growing limestone breakwaters to protect islands and coastal areas from erosion and rising sea levels. Coral reefs built with the Biorock process are now growing in Maldives, Seychelles, Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Panama and, in one of the most remote and unexplored reef areas of the world, Saya de Malha Banks in the Indian Ocean. GCRA scientists work with foundations, governments or private firms to build, restore and maintain coral reefs, nurseries and marine sanctuaries. Projects include restoration and construction of coral reefs for mariculture and tourism as well as breakwaters for shore protection.
Dolphins collaborate with Brazilian fishermen for mutual benefit. Biorock® projects in Philippines featured in Chinese tourism magazine Biorock coral reef and fisheries habitat project funded in Jamaica Texas A&M Scuba Club Run for the Reefs on April 15 2012 to benefit GCRA Expansion of Port Everglades threatens fragile South Florida corals. Sierra Club, March 16 2012. Comments Regarding the Sierra Club statement, Thomas Goreau. Belize Referendum rejects offshore oil drilling on their coral reefs by 96% to 4%! The Green Disc: New Technologies for a New Future now launched on the web March 12 2012
THE GREEN DISC:
NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR A NEW FUTURE Blue Planet Laureates: Environmental and Development Challenges – The Imperative to Act, This paper is a synthesis of the key messages from the individual papers written by the Blue Planet Laureates and discusses the current and projected state of the global and regional environment, and the implications for environmental, social and economic sustainability; Gro Harlem Brundtland, Paul Ehrlich, Jose Goldemberg, James Hansen, Amory Lovins, Gene Likens, James Lovelock, Suki Manabe, Bob May, Hal Mooney, Karl-Henrik Robert, Emil Salim, Gordon Sato, Susan Solomon, Nicholas Stern, MS Swaminathan, Bob Watson, Barefoot College, Conservation International, International institute of Environment and Development, and International Union for the Conservation of Nature; Feb 20, 2012 Mexican Tidal Project to Tackle Fresh Water, Electricity and Marine Life Sustainability, Jason Deign,
Biorock in Action: Gili Trawangan Gets a Star for Coral Regeneration, January 26, 2012 Biorock in Action: Gili Trawangan Gets a Star for Coral Regeneration, Coral Reef Restoration With Functional and Artistic Biorock Structures, February 15, 2012 Underwater video of the dive site "Biorocks" in the Gili Islands, Lombok, Indonesia. Jan 9, 2012
The Nassau Guardian, U.S. Scientists: Guana Cay at risk from golf course fertilizers, 1/24/2012
DAMAGE TO GUANA CAY CORAL REEFS, ABACO, BAHAMAS FROM BAKER’S BAY GOLF COURSE, Notes from the Road, Thomas J. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance, Troy Albury, President, Save Guana Cay Reef, James Cervino, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, January 19 2012
Documenting global coral reef restoration, a film by Seth Greenspan,
September 2011 Happy Winter Solstice from the Global Coral Reef Alliance. Here is a snorkel on a few of our hundreds of Biorock reefs in Bali, Indonesia. When the project began this site was largely dead corals with few fishes. Biorock structures were designed by the late Wolf Hilbertz. COST EFFECTIVENESS OF CORAL REEF RESTORATION: BIOROCK® VERSUS NOAA, Thomas J. Goreau, PhD, December 12 2011 World Conference on Ecological Restoration, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, August 2011 (Multiple Papers)
CORALS OF TRAWANGAN by Seth Greenspan, This 22-minute mini-documentary explores the myriad of complexities facing sustainable coral reefs in the face of increasing pressures from industrialization and associated climate change, while following Dr. Thomas Goreau's revolutionary efforts to help revive dying coral reefs and protect the future of endangered hard corals through the Biorock® workshops in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. Human Excrement to Blame for Coral Decline, Science Now, Gisela Telis, August 17 2011
Underwater images of Biorock Coral Reef Restoration projects, Bali and the Gili Islands, Indonesia, Matthew Oldfield, August, 2011 Bleaching and Reef Community Change in Jamaica: 1951-1991, Thomas J. Goreau, American Zoologist, Vol. 32, No. 6 (1992), pp. 683-695, Published by: Oxford University Press Growing Reefs with Biorock Technology Coral Reef Restoration Projects Using Biorock and Reef Balls, Epoch Times, Jul 4, 2011 Coral Reef Free-For-All provides a forum and encourages candid discussion of coral reef issues, including the politics (Yes! The politics! How and why human failings are killing coral reefs!) Of coral reef ecosystem research, conservation, and education -- issues that are in vital need of being aired among marine and coral researchers. Coral Reef and Fisheries Habitat Restoration in the Coral Triangle: The Key to Sustainable Reef Management, Proceeding of Coral Reef Management Symposium on Coral Triangle Area, 2010, Thomas J. Goreau, PhD. Tourism, Water Quality and Reef Health, a film by Thomas Goreau, 2010
Global Coral Reef Alliance Advisors and Partners
Donations Help Save the World’s Reefs GCRA is a non-profit, all-volunteer, 501 (c)(3) corporation; donations to Global Coral Reef Alliance are fully tax-deductible. No salaries or board perks are ever taken out of any income raised—100% of funds raised goes directly to studying, building and restoring coral reefs around the world. If you would like to contribute to GCRA’s program for saving reefs, please send your tax deductible contributions to:
Dr. Thomas J. Goreau Or, donate via PayPal:
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