Ocean Gardener Featured on PADI

Read more about the 7 Ocean Conservation Organizations Making a Difference. An original article from the PADI Blog. There’s a lot of online information about the problems that our oceans face, climate change, and plastic pollution. So in this blog, we want to celebrate the best ocean conservation organizations who are working tirelessly to turn […]

Ocean Geographic Magazine | Community Restoration on Nusa Penida

“On Indonesia’s Nusa Penida, a local community takes coral restoration into its own hands to preserve their coral reef for future generations.” Article featured in Ocean Geographic Magazine. Coral reef restoration is a popular subject at the moment with many projects sprouting all over the world. One of them caught our attention. In Indonesia, a […]

What is coral restoration monitoring?

Monitoring is an important component of Reef Restoration and Reef Management activity. It’s an important skill set that our student need to master.

The ‘Shitty’ Truth about Human Poop and Corals!

Humans are the plague. One of the biggest arguments a few years back regarding coral reef protection and MPA creation is their economic value. Protecting corals will provide economic benefits to local economies both in terms of fish stock foundation, but also in terms of increased dive tourism. Eco-Tourism, blue economy, all these terms hide […]

Drupella snail are a slow coral reef eating pest!

Part of our constant coraling and coral reef maintenance routine, is to remove Drupella snails from the reef. Drupella snails are causing a lot of damage on shallow coral reefs all over Indonesia. Regrettably, there is not a single place we travel to in Indonesia where we don’t find them. Indeed, on most of the […]