With the world’s oceans plunged into a fragile state as global warming takes its toll, the Caribbean is taking necessary steps to create important guidelines to protect dying coral reefs. Organisations including The Nature Conservancy and the UN Environment Programme have conjoined to produce a guide aimed at restoring these…

The worldwide Maritime tourism Market is growing rapidly. In fact, it has outstripped all expectations and has the potential to explode beyond all forecasted figures. The Marine Tourism market size was valued, to hit US$ 67,440 million this year, with a forecasted expectation to surpass US$ 106,720 million by close…

Climate change has begun to aggravate societal challenges in so many areas and particularly those that philanthropists have prioritised as the neediest of causes. Many great threats to human well-being still lie ahead with climate change being at the very top of the list. …

When Gilles Rollet launched the Rollet Reefs Foundation, his aim was to educate, support, collaborate and initiate coral reef conservation efforts in developing countries such as the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean. Developing regions do not often have the same financial resources as the more famous reefs across the globe…

Recreational activity based around the stunning coral reefs of the Caribbean have always attracted a plethora of water-based activities. …

The Caribbean Sea is being invaded by a deadly virus, which first appeared over 50 years on Florida’s Gulf Coast. ‘The White plague’ is a debilitating pathogen, disease or virus (its classification still isn’t 100% clear), which causes rapid tissue loss, resulting in a form of bleaching, giving coral a…

The latest 3D printing technology has been harnessed by marine researchers, in a bid to save the extinction of coral reefs across several continents. …

Hidden amongst the doom and gloom of devastating climate change, turbulent weather patterns, coral bleaching, over-fishing, and irresponsible tourism, are a few glimmers of hope that maybe, just maybe, the world’s coral ecosystems can be saved by those who care about the environment. Effective change must come from within communities…

Coral is a beautiful, often very mistaken species what are their purpose in the ecosystem? With the appearance of colourful fora growing from rocks and the seabed, it’s not uncommon to believe all types of coral derive from the genre of plants. This couldn’t be further from the truth. They…