You can provide world-class education to train legions of Reef Rangers

 
 

High quality training to help give corals a fighting chance

The Reef Rangers program is open to all and free of charge.  Your support helps provide education to advanced coral practitioners to help build urgently needed human capacity for quality coral research and restoration.

We engage in the career development of our Reef Rangers, with unrestricted access to the latest information and research facilities.  Through the Coral Resilience Institute, Reef Rangers are able to connect to other regions as well as international and research programs.

Reef Rangers brings unparalleled capabilities and capacity through an award-winning coral reef ecology curriculum, combining online self-paced learning with in-person, hands-on training.

Each training online training module is accompanied by an in depth online manual for trainers in the field to allow for information ease of accessibility and dissemination, allowing our Course III graduates to train more Reef Rangers in their home country.

 

The key to the survival of

coral reefs

Two things must occur if are reefs to persist into the next millennium:

  • Carbon emissions must be curbed dramatically (or halted entirely); and 

  • Legions of local practitioners - Reef Rangers -  must be empowered with the knowledge and skills needed to conserve corals and “climate-proof” reefs.

Reduce Your Footprint

Filling an urgent gap: climate proofing coral reefs

Coral conservation and restoration practitioner training has been staged in the past, but courses were run before we had the best science available, not provided on a global scale, and is often too costly for those that live near coral reefs.

Sadly, many reefs restored through such initiatives perished on account of extreme marine heat waves driven by global climate change.  

“Climate-proofing” reefs helps reefs foster resilience in the face of climate change.  There are many new and emerging methods that well trained Reef Rangers utilize to help coral survive oceanic heat waves or other impacts to coral’s environment like pollution.  Your support helps provide this critical training to our Reef Rangers to help prevent the extinction of coral reefs.

Frequently asked questions

  • The Reef Rangers program prioritizes those with an express need to save corals as part of their job: Marine Protected Area employees, scientists, government officials, NGOs.  Priority is given to those in coral-rich, low income countries.

  • Once coral practitioners successfully pass Course III, they graduate to the status of Reef Ranger. They are able to carry out on the ground expertise and training within their geographic footprint, further increasing the amount of well-trained practitioners in the coral research and restoration field.

  • All students - regardless of their level of training - have access to the Coral Resilience Institute’s research and innovation hub, and receive monthly newsletters on new breakthroughs in coral science on a continual basis - forever!

  • Potentially.   We don’t encourage this, but there is the potential to be connected with the coral practitioner who has benefitted from your generosity.