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Global Coral Reef Alliance
(GCRA)
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The Global Coral Reef Alliance is a small, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to growing, protecting and managing the most threatened of all marine ecosystems—coral reefs. Founded in 1990.  

GCRA is a coalition of  volunteer scientists, divers, environmentalists and other individuals and organizations, committed to coral reef preservation. We primarily focus on coral reef restoration, marine diseases and other issues caused by global climate change, environmental stress and pollution.

We employ a method  which allows reefs to survive and recover from damage caused by excessive nutrients, climate change, and physical destruction. The  mineral accretion, or the Biorock® Process, is owned by Biorock®, Inc. and is licensed to GCRA. This technology has been successfully applied to fish and shellfish mariculture as well as to growing limestone breakwaters to protect islands and coastal areas from erosion and rising sea levels. Coral reefs built with the Biorock process are now growing in Maldives, Seychelles, Thailand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Panama and, in one of the most remote and unexplored reef areas of the world, Saya de Malha Banks in the Indian Ocean.

GCRA scientists work with foundations, governments or private firms to build, restore and maintain coral reefs, nurseries and marine sanctuaries. Projects include restoration and construction of coral reefs for mariculture and tourism as well as breakwaters for shore protection.

• Tom Goreau interviewed by OneClimate at the climate change conference that took place in Copenhagen Denmark in December 2009.

• Copenhagen’s Real Failures: Scientifically Inadequate Targets Condemn Coral Reefs and Low Islands to Extinction, and Billions of People Living Near Coasts to Become Refugees, While Solutions Were Ignored,  Thomas J. Goreau, PhD, President, Global Coral Reef Alliance, December 26 2009

• COP-15 CONDEMNS CORAL REEFS, LOW ISLANDS, AND LOW COASTS TO EXTINCTION , December 18 2009, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of Parties 15, Copenhagen, Denmark

• What is the Right Target for CO2?: 350 ppm is a Death Sentence for Coral Reefs and Low Lying Islands, the Safe Level of CO2 for SIDS is Around 260 Parts Per Million, T. Goreau, PhD, Delegation of Jamaica, Scientific & Technical Briefing to the Association of Small Island States, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 7-18 2009

• Green ThinDisc : New Technologies for a New World" presents solutions to global climate / environment / development problems and reversing future global CO2, temperature, and sea level increases., December 16, 2009

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Donations Help Save the World’s Reefs

GCRA is a non-profit, all-volunteer, 501 (c)(3) corporation; donations to Global Coral Reef Alliance are fully tax-deductible.  No salaries or board perks are ever taken out of any income raised—100% of funds raised goes directly to studying, building and restoring coral reefs around the world.

If you would like to contribute to GCRA’s program for saving reefs, please send your tax deductible contributions to:

Dr. Thomas J. Goreau
President
Global Coral Reef Alliance
37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Telephone:  617-864-4226, 617-864-0433
E-mail: goreau@bestweb.net
Web site: http://www.globalcoral.org 

 Or, donate via PayPal:

 

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Biorock® is a registered trademark of Biorock, Inc. The Biorock® Process is owned by Biorock®, Inc.

Revised: 02/03/10.