CORAL REGROWTH IN CORAL TRIANGLE

Zoe Stimpson Start Date: Feb 20, 2018 - End Date: Jun 19, 2018
  • Borneo Central, Indonesia
  • Sydney NSW, Australia
  • Bali, Indonesia
  • Vietnam
  • Nepa, Bihar, India
  • Peru

My Travel Story

by: Zoe Stimpson Start Date: Feb 20, 2018 - End Date: Jun 19, 2018
Coral reefs, one of the most biodiverse and productive ecosystems on the planet, are currently threatened by bleaching, Coral mining, pollution and particularly on Pom Pom island cyanide fishing.Indonesia has lost half of its reef to bleaching and the Great barrier reef in Australia the once most well known healthy coral reef is classified as 'dead'. 

I qualified as a scuba diver when I was 15 and have personally seen the devastation of coral bleaching in places such as the Great barrier reef. On Pom Pom island I will be diving at least 3 times a day picking up coral fragments for regrowth, helping put in reef foundations, checking on newly grown reefs and putting young coral fragments in shallow water for growth. I will also be on night patrols to help baby turtles get to the water safely and making sure turtle numbers remain stable. 

 This year's Blue Planet narrated by David Attenborough mainly focused on the anthropogenic impacts to coral reefs such as ocean acidification and increasing sea temperatures by 1C to 2C. I, along with other scuba divers will be trying to reverse these damaging effects that Sir David Attenborough specified on coral reefs. If you would like to help save coral reefs then please donate. Any donation will be deeply appreciated and will go straight to regrowing coral reefs around Pom Pom Island (center of the coral triangle).
  • Borneo Central, Indonesia
  • Sydney NSW, Australia
  • Bali, Indonesia
  • Vietnam
  • Nepa, Bihar, India
  • Peru