2024
(2025 IMPACT REPORT)
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CORAL GARDENERS
From the team
Restoration isn't a fixed science.
What worked yesterday may not be enough for tomorrow's climate. So our approach has to evolve with it.
“Our work focuses on cultivating ecosystems, not just planting corals.”
We're helping build heat-resilient reefs that can recover and thrive over time, creating a network of coral reef oases across the ocean that acts as a refuge for marine life.
Our impact lives at the intersection of ecology, communities, cultures, and livelihoods. From empowering locals with advanced restoration technology to leveraging media to inspire millions, we're redefining what coral conservation looks like.
The results, in numbers
Our impact goes beyond
planting corals.
- 0 Corals planted since 2017
- 0% Survival rate on average
- 0m² Of reef restored
- 0 Coral species restored
Reach
Scaling restoration
across the ocean.
We're now working on 12 sites across three branches in French Polynesia, Thailand, and Fiji — and have begun exploring new reef systems in the Mediterranean.
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Our CG Labs team of engineers and scientists continued to develop and advance our ReefOS system — a suite of tools built to monitor the entire restoration process.
Across all our sites, the gardeners use these tools to track the corals we plant, monitor, and outplant.
Inside CG Labs
Developing our biggest innovations yet.
In 2025, CG Labs introduced the launch of spatial intelligence — enabling advanced monitoring through AI-powered image analysis and photogrammetry, providing unprecedented insights into reef ecosystems.
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We're offering anyone the power to garden the ocean back to life.
Over the years, our grassroots project has grown into a global movement powered by millions.
By making conservation accessible, we want to give everyone the power to revive the ocean, one coral at a time.
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Voices from the field
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Restoration is like being a parent: you take care of your children — in this case, the corals. You make sure they don't get sick so they can grow properly. Then you transplant them onto the reef and let them live their lives. Seeing the whole restoration site really gives hope for the future.
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Every day it's the fun, it's the excitement, it's the spirit that everybody brings to the team. And it's pretty amazing seeing that what you're doing is actually making a difference.
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The Coral Gardeners, this local crew of passionate young rebels in the best sense of the word, is an initiative I proudly support. Together we will be working to launch the very first training program for coral gardeners.
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One of the most important things that Coral Gardeners, Mission Blue, and Rolex are doing is celebrating a relationship with nature and understanding that we need to take care of the fabric of life that makes our existence possible.
The gardeners
Coral gardening — officially the world's coolest job.
We believe that people who should be restoring the reef are those who know it best. That's why we put our blueprint methodology and tools developed in collaboration with CG Labs into the hands of the people who live near the reef and already have a relationship with it.
In 2025, we received the support of the French Polynesian Government to begin taking steps to make coral gardeners an officially recognized job.
Funding the future of the reef isn't optional.
Coral reefs are relied upon by millions of people and marine species, and protecting something this vital requires more than just a traditional NGO model.
Since our beginning, we have raised more than $19 million for the reef.
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Raised for the reef since day one
2025 Allocation
Where every dollar goes.
Every dollar we receive becomes action for the reef.
- 45% Restoration & Conservation
- 24% Operating costs
- 12% Innovation R&D · CG Labs
- 10% Fundraising & Outreach
- 9% E-commerce & Merchandising
Saving the reef isn't cheap —
but what's the cost if we don't?
Discover where your dollar goes
Where this goes next
Reef restoration is no longer a question of possibility, but of speed, scale, and collective will.
We see a future that gives power to the gardeners — where anyone, anywhere can garden the world back to life.
