Restoring coral reefs: Guidelines, Best Practice & Success Stories

2nd June 2021, 13h00 – 15h10 (UTC)

Simultaneous interpretation will be provided (French & Spanish)

Moderator: Dr Jennifer Koss, Director, NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program

Welcoming Remarks

• Ambassador Peter Thomson
  UNSG’s Special Envoy for the Ocean
• The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland QC
  Secretary-General of the Commonwealth
• Keynote on Reef Restoration
  Dr Margaux Hein, ICRI Consultant

Guidelines & Tools for Restoration

• Coral Reef Restoration as a Strategy to Improve Ecosystem Services: A Guide to Coral Reef Restoration Methods
  Dr Ian McLeod, TropWATER
• A Managers Guide to Coral Reef Restoration Planning & Design and the Online Restoration Course & Toolkit for Capacity Building of Reef Managers
  Dr Elizabeth Shaver, The Nature Conservancy
• Discussion

Case Studies & Success Stories

• Coral Reef Protection & Restoration Action Group: Actions throughout the Commonwealth
  Vivian Ramnarace, Belize Fisheries Department, Commonwealth Blue Charter Champion
• A Trial of Coral Reef Restoration at a Large Spatial Scale by Okinawa Prefectural Government in Japan
  Tadashi Kimura, Japan Wildlife Research Centre, Tomofumi Nagata, Okinawa Enironment Science Center & Kazuyuki Oshiro, Nature Conservation Division, Department of Environmental Affairs, Okinawa Prefectural Government
• Tales from the Caribbean: Coral reef restoration in action
  Dr Anastazia Banaszak, CORALIUM
• UPLINK Winner: Plant a Million Corals
  Dr David E. Vaughan, Plant a Million Corals Foundation

Research & Development

• Mission Iconic Reefs
  Tom Moore, NOAA
• Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program
  Dr Cedric Robillot, RRAP
• Integrating resilient reef restoration to recover Florida’s Coral Reef
  Dr Erinn Muller, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
• Discussion

Concluding Remarks

• H.S.H Prince Albert II of Monaco