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501(c)(3) non-profit · Roatán, Honduras

Protect the reef.
Support the guardians.

We grow corals, train divers and teach island kids to protect the Mesoamerican Reef. Join the Guardians!

Become a GuardianAdopt a coral
1,400
Corals growing
16
Coral species
38
Dive Scouts trained
Our mission is EPIC

Four pillars. One reef.

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Educate
Everyone who meets the reef learns to read it.
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Protect
1,400 corals growing and reproducing.
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Inspire
See it once and you'll want to protect it.
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Connect
Scientists, schools and shops, one reef.

Educate

Every age. Every level.

From a child's first look at coral to a dive pro's continuing education.

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Kids & schools

Island Academy Ocean Curriculum

Raising tomorrow's ocean leaders, with the knowledge to understand the reef and the love to protect it.

Bring it to your school →
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Official partner

Dive Scouts of Roatán

Official reef education partner of Dive Scouts of Roatán: young divers, real reef skills.

Support a scout →
Reef Guardian I & II
Divers · from $149

Reef Guardian I & II

Learn to read a reef, then learn to restore one. Each course includes a dive; $25 goes to the sanctuary.

Book a course →
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Dive pros · bi-weekly

Coral Deep Dive Sessions

Bi-weekly coral science for instructors and guides, passed on to every diver they brief.

Join the next session →
Run a dive shop? Teach Reef Guardian.
We train your instructors to teach our courses. Your guests learn more, and every course you sell funds the reef.
Become a partner shop

Protect

A reef that grows itself back

1,400
Corals
16
Species

Our sanctuaries hold 1,400 corals of 16 Caribbean species, from elkhorn and staghorn to pillar coral. They grow, they hopefully spawn, and they become the next reef.

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Rescue
Broken, fallen and lost fragments from sites across Roatán, every genetic line we can find.
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Giving care and love
On ropes and hybrid reef structures in our sanctuaries.
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Grow healthy & return
They grow healthy and big and hopefully reproduce, then go back out to become the next reef.

Adopt a piece of the reef

Name it, follow it, watch it grow.

One coral
$35
One coral
Staghorn, elkhorn, pencil or finger coral.
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$120
All four species
The full set, one of each.
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$250
Rope for Hope
Name a whole nursery rope and their babies.
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$500
Sea Flake
Naming rights to a hybrid reef structure.
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$2500
A full nursery
Empty to be filled with frags as a team, family or friend group project!
Glass tanks full of coral frags
The plan

A coral genetics biobank for the Mesoamerican Reef

A biobank, aquarium and marine education center on Roatán, safeguarding our corals' genetic diversity for every future restoration.

$500K
Goal
Help build it

Inspire

There's a whole world down there

One dive on Roatán's reef and you'll understand why we do this.

Dive it with our home base, Caribbean Reef Divers in West End, where the instructors are Reef Guardians too.

Dive with usFollow @caribbeanreefguardians

Connect

Stronger together

The scientists, schools, shops and foundations who make this work possible.

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Our impact so far

And we're just getting started.

1,400
Corals in our sanctuaries
Protect
38
Dive Scouts trained
Educate
25+
Dive pros in the Coral Deep Dive
Educate
8
Partner organizations
Connect

Which guardian are you?

Pick your way in. Every guardian counts, above or below the surface.

I dive Take Reef Guardian I One course, one ID dive, a new way of seeing the reef. Book now → I want to give Adopt a coral From $35. Name it, follow it, watch it grow. Adopt → I run a dive shop Become a partner shop Teach Reef Guardian courses and fund the reef with every sale. Apply → I teach or parent Bring the Ocean Curriculum Island Academy lessons for your class or join the scouts! Get in touch →

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What we grew, planted and taught across all four pillars, straight from Roatán.