#1YAYASAN KARANG LESTARI PEMUTERAN, BALI, INDONESIA The world's biggest, best, and longest continuously run coral reef restoration project SLIDE SHOW AT PRESENTATION OF THE 2012 EQUATOR AWARD FOR COMMUNITY-BASED DEVELOPMENT JUNE 2012, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL#2PHOTOS BY RANI MORROW-WUIGK YAYASAN KARANG-LESTARI • PRESENTED BY BAPAK AGUNG PRANA PRESIDENT, YAYASAN KARANG LESTARI • & DR. THOMAS J. GOREAU SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR, YAYASAN KARANG LESTARI#3Bali lies in the Coral Triangle, the most biodiverse region of the world's ocean.#4• Bali is a small island with an ancient and deeply traditional culture, where village law is predominant. The fishing village of Pemuteran set up its own Pecalang Laut, or Sea Guardians, to enforce village laws preserving coral reefs and fisheries resources from destructive over-exploitation. On their own they set up a village-run marine protected area. The fisheries were in collapse at the time the project started.#5Maintenance and management is done by local trained staff, who are the world's first professional reef gardeners, hired by funds raised within the community to grow coral reefs and care for them.#6Blorock Pemuteran Bali BIO-ROCK CENTER DENN THEATERAN Bali Dia-Rock APOKMASWAS & PECALANG SEGARA DESA PEMUTERAN AR STARE#7The Yayasan Karang Lestari coral reef and fisheries restoration project is right in front of the beach. A traditional Balinese ceremony was held to bless a new coral restoration project, The Coral Goddess.#8BUILDING A NEW REEF#9INDONESIA -SPONSOR FA- BABY CORAL Renuteran BOLKCENTER KAHANG LESTARI POKMASWAS PECALANG SEGARA DESA PEMUTERAN BAROCK Training Worksho 2010#10SILS PECALANG SAPLARAMAY FURSTEN SPONSON BABY CORAL INDONESIA Blo#11• A few weeks later the corals are starting to grow around the Coral Goddess, and a big school of snappers swarm around her. Corals are grown using Biorock® Technology to greatly increase coral settlement, growth, survival, and resistance to severe environmental stress, including high temperature.#12Empty#13The Coral Goddess is powered by a solar panel and a windmill, which feed it a completely safe low current. This small current completely stops all rusting of the steel and grows solid limestone rock over it. The process was originally invented by the late architect Professor Wolf Hilbertz to produce building materials from the sea.#14Empty#15Biorock corals grow at record rates, typically 2-8 times faster than normal, allowing reefs to be kept alive under conditions that would kill them, and severely damaged reefs that have had no natural recovery to be restored in a few years.#16MARINE ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION CORALS, OYSTERS, SEAGRASS, MARINE PLANTS, AND FISHES ALL HAVE MUCH HIGHER SETTLEMENT GROWTH AND SURVIVAL AND RESISTANCE TO ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS. WITHOUT RESTORING DAMAGED MARINE HABITAT, MARINE PROTECTED AREAS CAN'T WORK TO RESTORE COLLAPSED FISHERIES#17BEFORE, 2001#18AFTER, 2011#19All forms of marine life settle and grow on Biorock structures at extraordinary and accelerated rates.#20The corals show exceptionally dense and perfect branching.#21Empty#22Corals grow at record rates, and we propagate them onto new structures.#23The corals glow with bright colors. This coral was grown in a few years from a fragment the size of the small circle at top center.#24Our goal is to grow every species to create Coral Arks to save coral reef ecosystems from extinction from global warming.#25These soft corals, waving in the current, settled and grew spontaneously. The hard corals were transplanted from small naturally broken fragments rescued from dying on the reef.#26These grey sponges settled and grew on their own.#27Filter feeding animals migrate to the structures.#28When we began the project this area was nearly barren of corals and fishes, due to the impacts of global warming and destructive fishing practices by outsiders and locals.#29Fishes are quickly attracted to the shelter and food Biorock reefs provide. We get around 6 times more fish than nearby reefs. Fishes rapidly build up their populations.#30A variety of colorful fish make the project a very valuable ecotourism resource, creating jobs for the villagers.#31Many brightly colored fish never leave the projects. Their populations have increased enormously.#32Rabbitfish school around the projects#33Razorfish swim head down, and all move together.#34School of fusiliers.#35Fusiliers glow with electric colors.#36Spadefish were some of the first to move in.#37Goatfish.#38We are restoring populations of big fish like groupers that have become rare.#39Large Sweetlips hang around the project.#40Barracuda. The entire food chain is represented on the projects. 0#41Village schoolchildren come to the project to learn how to care for their marine life. Here Komang Astika, project manager, gives an Earth Day presentation. STOP STOP the#42High school students from Java come to learn about the project. WA#43Indonesian university students do research projects. Here is a group from Bogor University in Java.#44Students from Australia. 20 Ma#45And from as far away as remote and exotic New York City.#46Yayasan Karang Lestari is doing global outreach to inform other communities about innovative and underutilized technologies for sustainable development as part of The Green Disc: New Technologies for a New Future, produced by the UNCSD Small Island Developing States Partnership in New Sustainable Technologies.#47The 60 chapter 2nd Edition of The Green Disc is being launched at UNCSD in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012, aimed at global policy makers, funding agencies, students, and the public, to inform people about new technologies for sustainable development. These could solve many of our major environmental problems if we only used solutions already in hand.#48It covers renewable energy from waves, tidal currents, and biomass, waste recycling, water purification, ecosystem restoration, soil fertility restoration, carbon sequestration, shore protection, sustainable agriculture and mariculture technologies, etc. for economic and environmentally sound development and reversing global warming.#49The entire work will be free on the web at: http://greenth in disc.com/#50BENEFITS: FISHERIES J LOCAL FISHERMEN SAY THE PROJECT HAS GREATLY INCREASED THE SIZE. ABUNDANCE, AND DIVERSITY OF FISH CATCHES IN SURROUNDING WATERS. INITIALLY THEY WERE WARY, THINKING IT WAS A WAY TO RESTRICT FISHING. NOW THEY STRONGLY SUPPORT THE PROJECT BECAUSE OF THE BENEFITS THAT THEY SEE#51BENEFITS: ECOTOURISM • TOURISTS COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO SEE THE PROJECTS •HALF OF THEM HAD HEARD BEFORE AND CAME FOR THAT REASON THEY COME BACK AGAIN AND AGAIN TO WATCH THE PROJECTS EVOLVE THEY TELL THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY THIS HAS CREATED ECOTOURISM JOBS FOR VILLAGERS#52BENEFITS: BIODIVERSITY •A NEARLY BARREN REEF IS NOW LUSH WITH CORALS AND SWARMING WITH FISH THE CORALS ARE MUCH MORE RESISTANT TO HIGH TEMPERATURE AND SEDIMENT STRESSES VAST NUMBERS OF NEW CORALS HAVE SPONTANEOUSLY SETTLED OUR CORAL ARKS AIM TO PROTECT BIODIVERSITY FROM GLOBAL WARMING#53BENEFITS: CLIMATE CHANGE ADPATATION WE ARE GROWING CORALS THAT ARE MUCH MORE RESISTANT TO GLOBAL WARMING, WITH 16-50 TIMES HIGHER SURVIVAL FOLLOWING HEAT SHOCK GROWING BACK REEFS LETS US GROW BACK SEVERELY ERODING BEACHES AND ISLANDS THREATENED BY GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISE#54BENEFITS: PRIDE AND SELF-RELIANCE This project has been done almost entirely with local resources, and we have never had major funding from the outside.#55BENEFITS: LEADERSHIP BY EXAMPLE We hope that every coastal community in Indonesia and around the world that has lost their coral reefs and fisheries will do what we are doing in Pemuteran to grow back and sustainably manage their own marine resources for their children's future.#56Om shanti, shanti, shanti om! Terima Kasih! Thank you! Muito obrigado!