Coral Restoration Foundation

Restoration Project Summary:

Since CRF’s initial experimental restoration project at the Molasses Wellwood site in 2003 we have planted approximately 400 staghorn corals at 17 different sites in the Upper Keys of Florida. By late 2010, we will have planted nearly an additional 100 corals at 3 more sites, thus increasing our transplant total numbers to approximately 500 corals at 20 different restoration sites within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. In addition, project monitoring and community-based volunteer programs designed and managed by CRF have led to the replanting of thousands of broken corals from natural causes at various sites throughout the Upper Keys.