Program · Ocean health
Coastal crews, cleaner water
Coastal communities run the work: plastic recovery with zero bycatch, and coral nurseries that rebuild reef one fragment at a time.
- 800 tcoastal plastic recovered
- 38coastal communities
- 0bycatch in recovery nets
- 2018first crew started
How it works
Our approach
- Step 01
Crews from the coast
Fishing families are hired and trained as paid crews, so the people who know the water look after it.
- Step 02
Recover, don't trawl
Plastic is collected from beaches, rivers and the shallows by hand and by shore nets designed for zero bycatch.
- Step 03
Grow reef back
Coral fragments are raised in nurseries and returned to damaged reef crests, then surveyed every season.
On the record
Where we work
- No. 03Coral Triangle reefsIndonesiaSince 2018
- No. 26Mangrove coastTanzaniaSince 2022
The full register, with coordinates for every site, is on the home page.
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Give monthly and you get your site's coordinates, then a photo from the same spot every year.