Pilot hybrid or ‘artificial’ reef structures, built with steel cages and filled with stones and cement, were installed in 2015 in Grenville Bay, Grenada to protect a vulnerable coastline from strong wave action and the impacts from climate change, such as

Pilot hybrid or ‘artificial’ reef structures, built with steel cages and filled with stones and cement, were installed in 2015 in Grenville Bay, Grenada to protect a vulnerable coastline from strong wave action and the impacts from climate change, such as

by | Apr 12, 2017

ALL INTERNAL RIGHTS, LIMITED EXTERNAL RIGHTS) May 2016. Pilot hybrid or ‘artificial’ reef structures, built with steel cages and filled with stones and cement, were installed in 2015 in Grenville Bay, Grenada to protect a vulnerable coastline from strong wave action and the impacts from climate change, such as severe erosion. The pilot structures are successfully hosting marine life, coral fragments and crusting over with coralline algae. Photo credit: © Tim Calver

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by | Oct 28, 2016

View from Ft. George to Carenage harbor in St. George, a popular tourist destination site in the Caribbean, Grenada. FULL USAGE RIGHTS

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project-divers

by | Oct 28, 2016

TNC on site dive team contemplating the next moves- Boze Hancock, Phil Kramer, Chistopher Slade , Kemit Amon-Lewis (not shown). Nearly all the work was done on snorkel with scuba only needed for coral nursery transplantation. Photo credit: Kemit Amon-Lewis

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Grenada

by | Oct 26, 2016

Local contractors working to install the coral reef demo project in Grenville Bay, Grenada. Once fully funded and implemented, this reef structure will be encrusting with living coral reef that provides important fish habitat and marine biodiversity, while breaking waves and protecting shoreline.