Costa Rica Reef Ball Projects and Photos
1) Paquaray High School construction, deployment and coral propagation educational project 2) Private project southwest gulf Click here for World Mapping System Information on Costa Rica
Brad Johnson 827-6168 is planning to work with Griselda Cerdas-Ruiz to have Drake Bay children visit the Paqueray High School Project to experiance Reef Balls. Aguila De Osa is working with the Reef Ball Foundation to explore local building and deploying of Reef Balls in the Drake Bay area as a longer term goal.
Marino Ballena is a newly designated national coral reef park that offers snorkeling near the famous 3 sisters island and off a large natural "tombolo." The park is finalizing a new management plan in Jan. 2007 and will be working with the Reef Ball Foundation to identify Reef Ball project opportunites to protect the park's resources. Ideas being considered include informational snorkeling trails, coral reef rehabilitation and the creation of a genetic coral reserve. Reef Ball Foundation working with local Costa Rican Reef Ball representatives conducted an initial visit and meeting in Dec. 2006.
A Reef Ball Foundation project was done in Costa Rica the in April 2004. Reef Ball Foundation and the CR-USA Foundation are jointly funding the project thatl involved a school project deploying 90 Reef Balls with coral transplants. The Marine Park of the Pacific (Parque Marino Del Pacifico) conducted the project including a monitoring component in Dec. 2006.
The Reef Ball Foundation and our local Costa Rican representives are working to create a community based project to enhance local bottom fishing opportunies to provide an alternative income to more ecologically unsustainable long line fisheries. As there has been a substainial loss of the nearshore fishery ecosystem due to water diversions that are causing the local estuary system to slowly fill up with soil thus loosing its aquatic values. Nearshore artificial reefs will help to replace the fishery habitat being lost.
Darron Henninger Cell 941-284-5424. Got one mold from Larry and is trying to get a community based effort off the ground.
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