Delivering the best science and technology to save corals

The scale and pace of environmental change are overwhelming. No single solution will be sufficient for every coral species in every reef around the world. We need a diverse toolbox of interventions. CORDAP’s mission to fund multiple, innovative projects is exactly the kind of ambitious and strategic response this global crisis demands.

CORDAP gave a big injection into the Caribbean side. And because it is supporting several programs in the Caribbean, this is giving a lot of strength here. In the end, these projects are all connected.

CORDAP recognizes that coral reefs are in crisis and that innovative solutions must be developed and tested quickly. This work includes some risks but has the potential to widen the bottleneck of coral recruitment significantly.

I am at loss for words what this award will mean for the local marginalised community of Kulapuan island. This is going to change the history for the island forever with such a significant impulse of funding that can be distributed.

The way that CORDAP is funding so many different projects, that are very different from each other, is really a great model for being an innovative hub for research and development and for testing all sorts of different types of solutions.

The funding that we received from CORDAP, and that CORDAP is providing to other organizations in the Global South, is playing a major role. Usually, these amounts of funding were reserved for highly developed countries, which were the ones leading and conducting most of the research. CORDAP has changed that by shifting support to places like Latin America, Africa, and other regions. One to one-and-a-half-year projects limit the results we can achieve. These three-year projects change how we can do science; we can accomplish so much more.