Our Goal: vibrant reefs and thriving communities
Our Goal
Vibrant Reefs and thriving communities
OneReef aims to support ocean climate resilience by creating one ocean kinship to sustainably conserve and protect the biodiversity of reefs and island ecosystems across the Pacific.
OneReef By the Numbers
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OneReef By the Numbers
- OneReef has been working in the Pacific for 15 years.
- OneReef has 4 supporting pillars: traditional governance, traditional learning, surveillance and compliance with spatial management, and impact monitoring.
- The total EEZ our community partners are collectively responsible for is ~2x bigger than the world’s 10 largest MPAs combined.
- OneReef has *supported or ^engaged over 50 local communities across 7 Pacific Island countries.
*supported means provided financial, operational, and capacity building assistance
^engaged means expressed interest in partnership, with initial meetings held
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Marine Impact
OneReef partners with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to use scientific technology to measure reef health for many of our community partners. Together, we train and support local organizations on how to use large-area imagery technology to photodocument changes on coral reefs.
With this powerful tool, we are able to create high-resolution and detailed snapshots (also called orthosmosaics) of coral reefs.
Over time, we can observe the growth (blue) and loss (red) of coral reefs by overlapping orthomosaics from different time points.
We are also able to create 3-D flythrough videos that provide an immersive view of how coral reefs change over time.
For detailed information on the photogrammetry data, please refer to our Impact Reports.
OneReef community partnerships produce
more productive reefs
Independent, peer-reviewed research indicated OneReef Community Partnerships have higher biomass of important fish than adjacent areas outside the One Reef Community Partnerships and that our no-take areas have even more fish.
Data compiled by Friedlander et al. 2017 PLOS and simplified for display here
