[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":136},["ShallowReactive",2],{"legacy-post:\u002F2020\u002F01\u002F2020-coral-reef-restoration-project-updates\u002F":3},{"post":4,"review_only":134,"snapshot_sha256":135},{"accepted_at":5,"body_markdown":6,"canonical_path":7,"conversion_status":8,"conversion_warnings":9,"derived_checksum":10,"excerpt":11,"id":12,"published_at":13,"slug":14,"source_checksum":15,"source_wp_id":16,"terms":17,"title":132,"transformation_version":133},"2026-11-02T09:34:00","A few years ago, we started a coral reef restoration project to help our gorgeous housereef to recover from the past events of fish bombing practice.\n\nPom Pom Island reef was full of macrolife, sea turtles and soft corals, but still lacking in hard corals formations.\n\nOur marine biologist, with the help of the coral conservation team, tested several artificial reefs and different depths to accelerate the coral reef recovery phase.\n\nDomes, biorocks and coral trees have been deployed in the restoration area;\n\n![coral tree](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F955bb5bd-936d-5a51-8e01-c885045ab84a-frames-2.jpg)\n\n![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F4e22cff2-8458-5528-8671-3f18efd16bf6-frames-3.jpg)\n\n![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F599d6c8a-64bb-5273-a97d-783259c20228-IMG_E6497.jpg)\n\nCoral Domes\n\n ![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002Fdd1220b9-cfe1-53f1-a505-4909fb8a3b1b-P2021022.jpg)\n\n![coral growth](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F8c9252f3-9756-55a8-ae63-dbcb50599a4c-coral-tree-1.jpg)\n\n![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F6510fa5e-e5b0-5c64-9391-110c678247e5-PC130440.jpg)\n\nCoral Tree\n\n ![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F9e93031f-c8cb-5932-818f-452e8d7343bb-IMG_4455.jpg)\n\nConcrete blocks\n\n To respect the biodiversity of the area, and increase the genetic variability, only natural coral fragments have been planted on the structures using biodegradable cable ties.\n\n![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002Fd28a60f9-300d-53af-97a4-ad4eb6846528-ory-coral-collection.jpg)\n\n![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F2cab2716-ce6a-58f2-83b7-0ad2959e8e79-massimo-1.jpg)\n\nCoral collection and planting\n\n After 3 years, the housereef has changed from this:\n\n![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002Fe2bf5c77-70d4-5c74-8e29-4f5cdccee30f-old-housereef.jpg)\n\nPom Pom Housereef Before!\n\n To this:\n\n![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F6bacedf9-98fc-5dbe-91ce-7bbccc1274d6-new-frames.jpg)\n\n![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F2448ad79-2462-54d4-8bcf-8aa47d339cd6-new-frame-2.jpg)\n\n![](\u002F_legacy\u002Fmedia\u002F90483909-9674-5229-8626-d911b19f4d1d-new-frame-1.jpg)\n\nPom Pom Housereef now!\n\n A big thank you go to the coral conservation team and to all the volunteers from China, Italy, USA, UK, Russia, Slovenia, Brasil, Portougal, Singapore that help us to daily plant new coral fragments!\n\nA special thanks to Massimo. 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