Making waves for coral reefs
Coral—on the surface, they may look like rocks or plants, but there’s so much more to them than meets the eye. Coral reefs are vital ecosystems, supporting marine biodiversity, protecting coastlines, and providing food and income for millions of people. Yet climate change, pollution, and overfishing are pushing reefs to the brink.
At SEA LIFE, we’re taking action around the world to help coral reefs recover and thrive. In Michigan, we’re caring for rescued corals from the Florida Reef Tract. Across our USA sites, we take part in Coralpalooza—an annual global effort to restore reefs. And in Weymouth, our SeaHive project is creating new habitats for native marine life while inspiring future ocean advocates.
Florida Reef Rescue
The AZA-Florida Reef Tract Rescue Project (AZA-FLTRP) is a coral rescue and conservation network focused on the rescue, housing and future propagation of Florida corals affected by stony coral tissue loss. Together, we're creating a bio-bank of healthy corals to preserve genetic diversity for years to come.
By restoring coral reefs, we're helping to ensure future generations have a planet where oceans are full of diverse life, coastlines are protected and communities can thrive.
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Coralpalooza
SEA LIFE teams across North America take part annually in the Coralpalooza, supporting this ground-breaking movement.
Year after year, Coralpalooza makes waves with large scale action taking place over three days in Florida, and with reef-saving activities happening around the world as part of the Coralpalooza Community.
Did you know...
Wow!
Coral is made up of lots of very tiny creatures called ‘polyps’.
Slow growers
Coral grows very slowly. The coral reefs in our oceans have been growing for 10,000 years! Luckily we can grow corals faster by creating the perfect conditions for them.
Family time
Corals are not plants, but are actually animals belonging to the same family as jellyfish and sea anemones.
Coral Rehoming in London
Championing coral protection through education and conservation efforts, SEA LIFE London Aquarium is an official partner of UK Border Force and Heathrow Airport for coral quarantine, and the seizure and rehousing of corals that don’t have the correct paperwork by offering them a home at the attraction. As part of SEA LIFE’s Protect programme, any permanently confiscated coral is placed into the quarantine area for proper care and nurturing.
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Supporting reefs in Bali
A group of five SEA LIFE expert aquarists from across the SEA LIFE network travelled to Bali, Indonesia, to work with The Indonesian Nature Foundation at the LINI Aquaculture and Training Centre in 2019.
The team helped train the local fishing community in aquaculture techniques while also helping to construct an artificial reef to add to LINI’s local reef restoration areas.
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SECORE
The team at SEA LIFE Konstanz are helping the efforts in the wild conducted by SECORE; a global collaboration to protect and restore coral reefs around the world.
We have joined SECORE to collect gametes from the wild, grow them in aquariums, and release them back into our oceans. The project specialises in raising disease resistant colonies, and with the help of SEA LIFE, translocated, raised and released up to 58,000 of these disease resistant baby corals to help restore habitats.
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