CoAct Database

Coral Vita

Coral Vita’s land-based farms integrate breakthrough methods to accelerate coral growth up to 50x (microfragmenting) while enhancing their resiliency to warming and acidifying oceans (assisted evolution). And our model scales: one land-based farm can potentially supply an entire nation’s reefs. Underpinning this high-tech coral farming is a business model to sustain large-scale restoration. Given reefs’ tremendous value, we’re working to transition the restoration space to a commercial industry. This facilitates diverse revenue generation and better scalability than existing restoration practitioners. Our farms not only grow coral for restoration projects, but also function as eco-tourism attractions and education centers for local communities. By proving out this financial model, we can help inject the capital needed into solving this global problem.

Activity period	2019–2021
Last CoAct update	n/a
Web URL	https://www.coralvita.co/
Output effectiveness	0.50
Accountability Index	0.50
Inclusiveness Index	0.10
Num. actors	3
Functions	Knowledge dissemination, Technical implementation
SDGs
Themes	oceans and coastal zones
Policy focus	Mainly adaptation
Sectors	Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Implementation countries	Australia, Bahamas (the), Egypt, Maldives, Mexico, Seychelles, United Arab Emirates (the), United States of America (the)

Target	Target type
We ultimately envision a worldwide network of largescale land-based coral farms in the nearly country and territories with coral reefs, and are building relationships for future farms in places including (but not limited to) Mexico, British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Maldives, Egypt, Australia, and USA.	People/countries affected target