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Steps to Protect & Rehabilitate Your Coral Reefs

By Sara Lynn

Steps to Protect & Rehabilitate Your Coral Reefs

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The Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism (CAST) and the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) recently held a must-see webinar hosted by Dr. Craig Dahlgren (that you can view here) on the value and benefit of coral reefs.

Coral reefs are rapidly declining in their health and live coral across Caribbean regions have gone from 40-50% in the 1970s to just 10% living coral at present. If these numbers shock you, they should! As coral dies off seaweed takes over and the waters around our islands change from coral dominated ecosystems to a seaweed dominated ecosystems. The negative effects of this is clear as illustrated by your own experience if you’ve been in the region lately and articles such as Sargassum threat is the ‘new normal’ for Caribbean.

The reasons for decreasing coral colonies are multitude: increased ocean temperatures is leading to marine acidification, an increase in hurricane intensity which can wreck coral reefs that have withstood centuries of hurricanes, and coral bleaching. All of these factors, and many others, make it so that corals are less resilient to disasters, whether human or natural.

It’s more important than ever to place a premium on green initiatives and going green means taking care of what’s below sea level as well.

A few steps that you can take to reduce the threats to coral reefs near your hotel or resort and aid in their resiliency are:

  • Protect important coral grazers like parrotfish
  • Avoid development or resort expansion in sensitive areas
  • If you are landscaping, remodeling, expanding, or developing, be sure to take steps to reduce runoff pollution
  • Create marine protected areas
  • Educate your staff and your guests on the importance of coral reefs and how to responsible see them, treat them, etc
  • Start actively resorting coral reefs

With regards to the last point above low cost coral rehabilitation programs such as a mid-water coral nursery can jumpstart a natural process that helps coral reefs come back and make restoration a realistic possibility on a local level.

Aside from just being the right thing to do, a coral nursery at your resort will create a new and unique angle for guests to participate and learn, provide marketing content, and provide further appeal to the evermore eco-conscious travelers of today.

Go Green. Get in touch here or at hello@coralrange.com.

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About Sara Lynn

Sara Lynn Burnett found her way into the hospitality and tourism industry through her work as an influencer. After building an online publication and social media following that placed her among the top voices in the romance & honeymoon industries, she has since brought those marketing skills to the Caribbean not only as a designer and developer, but also as a consultant and trainer... (Learn More)

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