Fourth global coral bleaching event – A disaster!

25.04.2024

For coral reefs and for us, 2024 is a dark year. Rising seawater temperatures and El Niño caused devastating coral bleaching events not only in the Caribbean, the Pacific and the Great Barrier Reef, but also in the Indian Ocean. From Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania down to Mozambique, the Seychelles, the Comoros, Zanzibar and the many small islands, it is an absolute disaster. A significant proportion of corals is affected, sometimes at depths up to 30 meters. This was the second coral bleaching event at a global scale since 1998.

A bitter setback. But we are not giving up! On the contrary, our coral reef reforestation projects are right on target and more important than ever. However, we need to adapt our areas of operation, methods and goals. We have just trained eight more coral reef reforesters and established two more coral nurseries in Kigombe, Tanzania and Msuka, Pemba with capacity for 20,000 coral babies.

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