Enric Sala, National Geographic’s Explorer in Residence. Pristine Seas, a global ocean conservation program, is leading the charge to avert catastrophe. Devastating human impact, however, is pushing the ocean towards a tipping point beyond which we may never recover. It provides food for billions and over half the oxygen we breathe. Winning the prize will help them make that vision a reality.
With Coral Vita’s methods, a single farm could potentially supply coral for an entire nation, and they ultimately envision a network of such farms in every nation with reefs, kickstarting a restoration economy to preserve the ecosystems that sustain us all. Coral Vita gives new life not just to the ocean but to coastal economies as well. Its methods grow coral up to 50 times faster than traditional methods and improves resilience to the impact of climate change.Īs well as restoring reefs, Teicher and Halpern work with local communities, public officials, and private companies to improve education, create new job prospects, and build a model to inject more funding into environmental protection. The experience brought home the extent of the climate emergency and strengthened their resolve to protect our reefs.Ĭoral Vita, which grows coral on land to replant in oceans, gives new life to dying ecosystems. It will be a disaster, too, for the billion human lives dependent on the benefits reefs provide.Ī year after Sam Teicher and Gator Halpern launched Coral Vita’s first facility in Grand Bahama, Hurricane Dorian destroyed their coral farm.
Ocean warming and acidification are set to destroy over 90% of reefs by 2050, a death sentence for the quarter of marine life who need them to survive.
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