NASSAU, Bahamas -- A program aimed at replenishing coral reefs by undersea farming and forestry won plaudits this week from the national environmental movement Save The Bays which renewed its pledge to support its creator, The Nature Conservancy.
"Cooperative community partnerships are key to bringing attention, awareness and progress to the environmental protection and preservation movement," said Lindsey McCoy, Save The Bays CEO. "That's why Save The Bays seeks to involve other non-governmental organisations in the broad scope of work that runs the gamut from rebuilding reefs to filing legal action, from funding renewable energy research to monitoring development for sustainability."
When The Nature Conservancy applied for a partnership that would include funding and assistance with public awareness of its reef forestation project, McCoy said Save The Bays was very impressed.
"The scope of the project - planting coral trees and immature forests of coral along the southwest coast of New Providence and in Andros and out planting to other restoration sites which will increase coral cover in the country, has great potential not only for The Bahamas but eventually for wherever reefs in the region are threatened," she noted.
"This was about action and they had the equivalent of a business plan with every detail accounted for." Funding was announced nearly one year ago and the project launched.

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