Global Coralition unites art, science, and community to regenerate marine ecosystems. The organization specializes in building large-scale, culturally impactful sculptures that catalyze marine protection, coral farming and mangrove restoration initiatives. Global Coralition empowers local communities through sculptural reefs and land-based coral farms to regenerate marine environments, boost local economy and create long-term food security and climate resilience for coastal communities.
Project story
We’ve lost half of our reefs in the last 30 years and we’re estimated to lose 70-90% by 2050.
However, scientists have found that marine ecosystems can actually recover so quickly that with the right interventions, we can actually rebuild marine life by 2050. We have identified 30 reefs around the world that are an optimum portfolio of reefs to conserve, if restored, they could become biodiversity hubs and reseed other regions over time.
We launch each project with a large-scale sculpture deployed into the sea. Inspired and in collaboration with local and indigenous leaders, they are culturally impactful and become a unique identity for that reef. We partner with local NGO’s and around each sculpture - marine protect the area, develop coral farming and mangrove restoration initiatives. Our pilot project in the Dominican Republic is a sculpture named Atabey, the Mother of Water - from the Arawak/Taino indigenous people of the Carribean. Since her deployment, the 50 square kilometers around her has been marine protected, we have launched a coral farm at a local school which is growing 750 coral babies per month and we have planted 720,000 mangroves - protecting and restoring the upstream watershed and empowering local fishermen and community members. The sculpture has attracted new ecotourism opportunities to the local region which is supporting local conservation efforts and operational costs.
We are on a mission to scale and replicate this model across 30 reef sites. Our next project sites include Indonesia, India, Kenya, Fiji, Belize, Honduras and Colombia.
We are developing our next partnership with Ocean Gardeners in Indonesia. We are exploring a collaboration at their project site in Bali & Nusa Penida, to develop an artistic underwater sculptural reef that can bring awareness, local engagement and funding to their programs. A grant of $15K would allow us to do the full R&D - ecological survey, permitting, planning, design development, and preparations for build and deployment of a project, also exploring how to scale their efforts around coral farming and mangrove restoration in the region. Part of our R&D would include bringing in other coral and mangrove experts to support in strategy and techniques, accelerating collaboration and innovation.
Global Coralition is a US based 501c3 nonprofit organization.
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Indonesia Reef Regeneration Hub
Global Coralition unites art, science, and community to regenerate marine ecosystems. The organization specializes in building large-scale, culturally impactful sculptures that catalyze marine protection, coral farming and mangrove restoration initiatives. Global Coralition empowers local communities through sculptural reefs and land-based coral farms to regenerate marine environments, boost local economy and create long-term food security and climate resilience for coastal communities.
Project story
We’ve lost half of our reefs in the last 30 years and we’re estimated to lose 70-90% by 2050.
However, scientists have found that marine ecosystems can actually recover so quickly that with the right interventions, we can actually rebuild marine life by 2050. We have identified 30 reefs around the world that are an optimum portfolio of reefs to conserve, if restored, they could become biodiversity hubs and reseed other regions over time.
We launch each project with a large-scale sculpture deployed into the sea. Inspired and in collaboration with local and indigenous leaders, they are culturally impactful and become a unique identity for that reef. We partner with local NGO’s and around each sculpture - marine protect the area, develop coral farming and mangrove restoration initiatives. Our pilot project in the Dominican Republic is a sculpture named Atabey, the Mother of Water - from the Arawak/Taino indigenous people of the Carribean. Since her deployment, the 50 square kilometers around her has been marine protected, we have launched a coral farm at a local school which is growing 750 coral babies per month and we have planted 720,000 mangroves - protecting and restoring the upstream watershed and empowering local fishermen and community members. The sculpture has attracted new ecotourism opportunities to the local region which is supporting local conservation efforts and operational costs.
We are on a mission to scale and replicate this model across 30 reef sites. Our next project sites include Indonesia, India, Kenya, Fiji, Belize, Honduras and Colombia.
We are developing our next partnership with Ocean Gardeners in Indonesia. We are exploring a collaboration at their project site in Bali & Nusa Penida, to develop an artistic underwater sculptural reef that can bring awareness, local engagement and funding to their programs. A grant of $15K would allow us to do the full R&D - ecological survey, permitting, planning, design development, and preparations for build and deployment of a project, also exploring how to scale their efforts around coral farming and mangrove restoration in the region. Part of our R&D would include bringing in other coral and mangrove experts to support in strategy and techniques, accelerating collaboration and innovation.
Global Coralition is a US based 501c3 nonprofit organization.
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Indonesia
Round 3
Jul 1-21, 2026
Supporting community-led nature projects around the world.
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