As a spin-off to the USAID-funded coral reef restoration project I'm coordinating in Seychelles, we initiated a collaboration with an 5-star all-inclusive resort to restore a "coral garden", a small coral reef. This is part of a shallow coral reef (max depth 6 m) that was a vibrant site before the mass coral bleaching resulting from the 1998 El Nino + Indian Ocean Dipole event.
The collaboration was possible after we secured funding from GOS/UNDP/GEF (Government of Seychelles/United Nations Development Program/Global Environmental Fund) through their Small Grants Program.
Today we finished transplantation in the coral garden. Fieldwork was completed in [...]