Travel Green List 2024: The world’s top coral conservation projects

Perfect for encouraging kids of all ages to engage with conservation, Coral Gardeners’ Adopt-A-Coral programme allows you to sponsor the rehabilitation of a fragment of a species of climate-resilient coral. After naming your baby coral, you’ll receive a digital card and real-time email updates on its progress in the nursery before it’s transplanted out on a reef.

Since its 2017 launch on Mo’orea, near Tahiti, more than 100,000 coral specimens have been planted on 11 reefs – 69,890 in 2023 alone – with a 82% survival rate. Also in 2023, Coral Gardeners opened its first international branch in Fiji, employing five Fijian gardeners – and has already planted more than 11,000 corals. Importantly, local tribal leaders have given their permission and blessing to the project.

More information: coralgardeners.org