Community-Based Conservation: Empowering Local Communities - Ocean Gardener
Community-based conservation puts local communities at the center of environmental protection efforts. By empowering communities to manage their natural resources, we create sustainable solutions that benefit both people and wildlife.
Our programs provide training in sustainable resource management, eco-tourism development, and conservation techniques. Communities receive direct benefits from conservation efforts through employment opportunities, skill development, and revenue sharing from tourism activities.
This approach has proven highly effective, with participating communities showing increased wildlife populations, improved forest cover, and enhanced economic opportunities that reduce dependence on environmentally harmful practices.
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Ocean Gardener
Established in 2016, we are a diverse team of biologists, divers and coral enthusiasts that drive to make change by restoring Indonesia’s degraded reef areas. By relying on our founder’s 25 years of coral farming experience, we have achieved great success rates in our coral restoration sites. We actively partner with local communities, hotels, resorts and dive shops to setup and deploy coral nurseries using our protocols. From these nurseries, we harvest donor coral to restore the surrounding reefs. Collectively with our partners, we have planted over 1 million corals. We offer tours for the public to learn about coral restoration and courses for people wanting more hands-on experience and stay to volunteer.