Ocporkpie,
Actually CORL has been putting corals back onto degraded reefs for several years now; our news letter is posted on our website check out our projects.
www.corl.org.
To restore a degraded coral reef habitat takes much more work than just placing frags back onto the reef. The next news letter will contain more in-depth articles on the whole process of setting up a community based coral reef habitat restoration project (CBCRHRP) in the South Pacific and just what's involved.
It takes $$ to do these projects the cartridge recycling program is one way the hobbyist can help without donating his hard earned money (save that for net caught fish and aquacultured corals).
If you want to donate cash, that's no problem all donations received will go directly to the project you wish to help and are tax deductible as we are a 501-c-3 non-profit organization.
We are getting ready to do a Island wide Coral Reef restoration workshop here in American Samoa in July, so far 7 villages have signed up for the workshop and several more are expected to attend it looks like it will be a well attended workshop so far! I'm currently in the process of finding sponsors for the workshop and related activities and many of those business I've contacted are also coming forward with their support for this important workshop.
A DVD video on the workshop and creation of the American Samoa CBCRHRP(s) will be created for anyone who is interested in the project (e-mail us if your interested and we will send you purchase information).
Faafetai Lava!
from the South Pacific CORL office.
Mike King
Director of CORL.
acting director of CORL-AS
mike@corl.org