Financing Coral Reef Conservation and Management with Tourism-Related Tools
Coral reefs provide enormous economic value to humanity, and their value for recreation is one of the easiest to capture financially. This webinar will explore the range of existing and emerging tools that protected areas and site managers can use to capture funds...
Strategic Communication & Visual Design Mentored Online Courses – 2018-2019
With the support of the NOAA Coral Conservation Program, 15 coral reef managers from American Samoa, Florida, Guam, and CNMI received individual communication planning support tailored to their needs.
Mapping Ocean Wealth and the Caribbean Regional Oceanscape Project Workshop – Saint Lucia, 2019
Thirty-five natural resource professionals representing 10 countries and 30 agencies in the Caribbean participated in a three-day workshop held in St. Lucia
Restoration Mentored Online Course – 2019
Reef restoration mentored online course, 2019.
Finance Tools for Coral Reef Conservation: An Overview
The Wildlife Conservation Society, in collaboration with the Conservation Finance Alliance and in support of the 50 Reefs initiative, recently released Finance Tools for Coral Reef Conservation: A Guide as a resource for protected area managers and others charged with...Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease: Lessons Learned & Resources
Florida’s corals reefs have been experiencing devastating effects of a multi-year outbreak
Communication for Corals Workshop – Florida, 2018
The Network partnered with Pew Charitable Trusts & The Ocean Agency to host an interactive workshop to build participants’ understanding of strategic communication and develop and practice messaging skills to motivate action for reef conservation.
New Restoration Case Studies
Two new two case studies on emergency and rapid response efforts after major storms that occurred in 2017
Marine Protected Area Financing Tool
Reef Support is a new tool designed to help MPA managers collect and sell marine park fees to visitors. Developed by Ramón de León, former manager of the Bonaire National Marine Park, Reef Support is a simple, robust, and customized tool that offers not only a safe...Year in Review 2018
As we begin 2019, all of us on the Reef Resilience Network Team want to thank you
RRN Events at Reef Futures 2018
Headed to the Reef Futures symposium in the Florida Keys next week? If you are, please join us for: Managers Meet & Greet Monday, Dec. 10 5:30 – 7:00 pm at Palm Court (adjacent to the Beach Bar). This event is to provide you (folks who work to manage reefs) an...
Coral Restoration using Larval Propagation in the Philippines & Australia
Listen to a new podcast interview with Dr. Peter Harrison, Director of the Marine Ecology Research Center at Southern Cross University about his mass larval propagation and restoration projects in the Philippines and Australia. We got a chance to sit down with Dr....
Women in Climate Adaptation: A Pacific Island Learning Exchange
Last March, The Nature Conservancy brought together 25 women from Papua New Guinea, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Pohnpei, Chuuk, Yap, Kosrae, the U.K., and the U.S. to talk about climate change and how it can affect men, women, and children in different ways. With...
Year in Review – 2017
Reflecting on the past year, there has never been a more critical time for effective coral reef management. In June of 2017, the world’s longest and most widespread bleaching event on record ended, with many reefs experiencing significant mortality. To address these...
Strategic Communication Mentored Online Course
This mentored course has already taken place, but you still find the Communication content here. Looking to influence behavior or raise awareness about an issue to advance your conservation efforts? A new Strategic Communication Mentored Online Course can help you...
Assisted Evolution: A Novel Tool to Overcome the Conservation Crisis?
Hear the discussion of the legal, social, ethical and scientific landscape of conservation genetics today. This symposium was live streamed as part of the Coral Restoration Consortium webinar series in conjunction with The Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and “The Future Ocean” cluster in Kiel.
Workshop to Advance the Science and Practice of Coral Restoration
This workshop was held November 15-17, 2016 with the goal of fostering collaboration and technology transfer among coral restoration scientists, practitioners, and managers, and initiating a community of practice that continues to address the evolving role of active...
Adaptation Design Tool Online Course Announcement
This mentored course has already taken place, but you still find the Adaptation Design Tool self-paced course here. Ready to get practical with adapting your management activities in light of climate change, but wondering how to organize what can be a complicated...
