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Love is in the Air — and the Sea!
Celebrate the Belize Barrier Reef and pledge your Love by
Adopting a Reef or Adopting a Coral and submit regular reports on your Cool Spot!
Joining the Reef Champion Challenge is easy!
Celebrate the Belize Barrier Reef and pledge your Love by
Adopting a Reef or Adopting a Coral and submit regular reports on your Cool Spot!
Joining the Reef Champion Challenge is easy!
Adopt A Reef
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When you Adopt a Reef and submit reports on a monthly basis then we can track the health of the reef and compare it to other sites throughout Belize. Resorts, dive centers, marine guides, coastal residents, NGOs and park rangers are asked to adopt your favorite reef site, whether it is a shallow snorkel site or deeper dive site. If you can adopt more than one even better! We need sites of all depths monitored so that we can record changes on the reef over time. Once you Adopt A Reef you will receive a "Certification of Adoption" for the site and will receive training materials that will guide you through the steps required to monitor the reef. The materials will show you how to report your observations on each of the following Citizen Science programs.
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Belize Barrier Reef Watch
There are 18 distinct categories within the Belize Barrier Reef Watch for reporting, including marine mammals, reptiles, fish, and coral, among others. Explore the online course, request the Belize Barrier Reef Watch Handbook, and begin submitting your reports today! |
Belize Turtle Watch
Record the size and species of sea turtles at your reef site to document abundance and range. Observing them provides insights into marine ecosystem health. Maintain a log of each sighting, including date, time, location, behaviors, and environmental conditions. Over time, this data can uncover patterns in migration, nesting, and population changes, aiding conservation efforts. |
Belize Lionfish Project
Dive shops are also encouraged you to keep your sites clean of lionfish. Remember lionfish are the vacuum cleaners on the reef and eat all fish, up to 75% their body size so by removing them from your reef sites, these sites will support the traditional native fish! |
Belize Coral Watch
The first step in learning about the Belize Coral Watch Program is to learn how to identify healthy coral from bleaching or diseased coral and how to identify different growth forms of coral. |
Adopt a CoralAdopt a coral and submit regular reports! Each time you visit your reef, share images of the same coral. You may adopt multiple coral colonies and document their growth and changes over time through your photographs.
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