by coralpartstg | Oct 21, 2021
With funding and mentorship support from the Reef Resilience Network, artist Paco Lopez-Mujica of Arrecifes Pro Ciudad—a community-based organization that manages the Isla Verde Marine Reserve in Puerto Rico—developed a cooking oil recycling program to protect the...
by coralpartstg | Oct 21, 2021
Increasing sea surface temperatures, and prolonged occurrences of these increases, have caused several mass bleaching events around the world in the last two decades. Fortunately, the U.S. Virgin Islands have not seen a mass bleaching event since 2010; even still,...
by coralpartstg | Oct 21, 2021
Fishers play a major role in the local economy of Puerto Rico. Between 2010 and 2015, fishermen across Puerto Rico landed close to 2.4 million pounds of seafood, generating revenues of about $8.6 million per year. Unfortunately, many of Puerto Rico’s vital fisheries...
by coralpartstg | Oct 21, 2021
Jesse and Joe Quinata are brothers who grew up in Umatac, Guam on land that has been in their family for generations. They have fished their whole lives and have seen the ocean in Guam change. When the brothers go fishing, they catch only about two fish in four...
by coralpartstg | Oct 21, 2021
The Mariana Islands Nature Alliance (MINA), a non-profit organization which receives capacity building support from the Coral Reef Conservation Partnership, is fostering the next generation of conservationists at the Tanapag Middle School on the island of Saipan,...
