Implementing coral restoration
SECORE
Our Training and Capacity Building Program to implement Coral Seeding is a comprehensive program that aims at a long-term investment in an area. Each partner commits to a 5-year training with the goal to fully hand over the project to the partner on-site after that time. We combine hands-on trainings and site visits with online trainings, seminars, and mentoring. Our partners get the chance to also experience a peer-to-peer learning journey, which helps them to become part of a broader network of like-minded people. As the trainees mature, aim at becoming trainers, thus spreading the knowledge to apply coral restoration approaches within their region and beyond.
Sharing expertise
“I frequently travel to teach and support our partners on all aspects of our Coral Seeding approach. In doing so, I have had the opportunity to personally meet and share experiences. I have been involved in the hands-on training of many people from many different countries. I enjoy supporting all these valuable efforts and helping to implement our technology and methods where they are needed.” Eduardo Antonio Avila Pech, SECORE's Restoration Technician
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Expanding our network
“Through our training and capacity building program, we have established our Coral Seeding approach in 11 countries across the Caribbean. We are now in the process of transferring this successful model to other locations. In 2023, we expanded our training program to the Western Pacific, together with partners from the US jurisdictions there (American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan). In addition, we have expanded our efforts to the Indian Ocean in 2024 and are currently establishing a SECORE team based in Mauritius." Aric Bickel, Director of Technology and Implementation
How to breed corals for restoration
SECORE’s Coral Seeding approach takes advantage of the corals’ own reproduction potential. This approach, also called assisted coral reproduction, involves collecting coral spawn from wild corals, fertilizing the eggs and sperm in the lab (or on a boat or beach), and thus producing millions of coral embryos. The developing coral larvae are grown in enclosures in the ocean and settled on special substrates. After the corals have reached a certain size, the substrates are deployed onto the reef. Coral Seeding promotes genetic diversity and enables to grow huge numbers of coral offspring out of one spawning event.
Learning and exchanging experiences
“Additionally to our online trainings and seminars, we host an annual virtual partner symposium since 2021. It’s a special opportunity to come together for mutual exchange and in February 2023, already 60 participants took part. Joining forces and working together is the most impactful way to save our coral reefs!” Tania Doblado Speck, SECORE's Caribbean Training Coordinator
Working together for a sustainable impact
We launched our Training and Capacity Building program in 2017. This is likely the last decade in which we can set the course of the future for coral reefs. But how do we save them? And how do you become a Teacher of Coral Seeding? Hear from Aric Bickel, our Director of Technology and Implementation and Eduardo Antonio Avila Pech, our Restoration Technician, as well as FUNDEMAR's Programme Coordinator, Andreina Valdez Trinidad, how we are giving coral reefs a future.
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