Kuruwitu, which is located on the coast, north of Mombasa and south of Kilifi, is one of Kenya’s key ecosystems, however before 2006, the region’s marine life had steadily declined over the previous decades, and the local community’s livelihood had been greatly affected.

Our funding is directed at projects with large-scale impacts, such as expanding the extent of locally managed marine areas, improving sustainable livelihoods from fisheries, and restoration of the coral reef in the core protected areas. Oceans Alive has completed the construction of five coral tables which have been transferred into the water, two of the tables already have 420 corals planted on them. Each table is constructed to contain 210 corals.

In the next six months, the juvenile corals will be outplanted to an artificial reef on a pyramid/beam structure and also directly onto the damaged reefs. This will in the long run restore and reforest the coral reefs on about 100 meters squared of ocean underwater land. This will also expand the extent of local marine areas and improve sustainable livelihoods from fisheries.