Step 1Adopt your coral
Get its custom digital certificate.
Adopt a coral
Your adoption funds reef restoration where it's needed most — right now in Roro, Fiji. We email you its photo, GPS location and updates, for yourself or as a gift.
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- Secure payment
- Monthly adoption
- Cancel anytime
Adopt a coral, then gift it to anyone using the form in your confirmation email, with a personal message if you like.
Adopting a coral directly supports the growth and restoration of coral reefs by nurturing a baby coral fragment until it's ready to enrich the ocean's biodiversity.
Donating, however, provides broader support for our mission, including research, technology, and the vital work of our coral Gardeners.
Coral Gardeners is a reef-restoration movement using innovative coral farming and transplantation. Since 2017, our team has been restoring reefs in French Polynesia, Fiji and Thailand. By adopting a baby coral, you directly fund this work and receive a certificate, photo and GPS location.
Join 1M+ ocean lovers who follow our mission on Instagram and help bring dying reefs back to life. 🌊
No reef. No ocean.
The reef does more than add beauty to our planet. It’s a living system that shelters a quarter of all marine life, protects coastlines, and connects us all to a healthy ocean, even if you live in the city. But warming seas are changing things fast. Without action, up to 90% of coral reefs could disappear by 2050. Adopting a coral helps us grow them back.
Who we are
Coral Gardeners is a movement of scientists, artists, engineers and island kids working to grow the world back to life, one coral at a time.
How it works
Your adoption helps us collect a fragment from a resilient wild coral and grow it in our nurseries into a strong, healthy baby coral.
After about a year, we outplant your coral onto a damaged reef, where it helps rebuild the habitat and bring marine life back.
Step 2We plant it
Your heat-resilient coral is planted in the nursery.
Step 3Track its growth
Get a photo and GPS location of your coral.
Step 4Revive the reef
Once grown, it’s planted back on the reef.
Whyadopta coral
The ocean produces roughly half the oxygen we breathe. Protecting reefs helps protect the air we rely on.
Of Earth's oxygen
50%
Reefs cover less than 1% of the ocean yet support around 25% of marine life. Without them, ecosystems are at risk.
Of marine life
25%
Reefs break waves, reduce erosion, and protect and provide for coastal communities.
Km of coasts
138K
Over a billion people rely on reefs for food and income. Caring for reefs means caring for people, too.
People
1B+
Live updates from the garden
Get updates and photos from your exact coral to see how it's tracking in the nursery.
Track your coralOur Impact
56,706
Corals adopted to date
12 Sites
3 global HQs across 8 islands
100K
Supporters from 106 countries
Reviews
4.69
Based on 868 reviews
Amber D.
MaltaVerified review
Given as a present.
My nephew was gifted some coral and he absolutely loves it. Thanks for being so brilliant x
Petey P.
United StatesVerified review
I can't believe you guys are doing this! It's amazing!
I remember visiting a coral reef when I was young and then going back years later to find it depleted and bleached out, it was incredibly depressing. I love the ocean, surfing, spending time at the beach and snorkeling... and I can't believe while working in a busy city I can build a legacy by adopting coral! Everyday I'm just happy that I can contribute in this way and be a part of the difference you're making!
Jennifer J.
United KingdomVerified review
Thank you Coral gardeners team.
You are doing a fantastic job guys. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to help a little bit, you are saving our planet and I support your amazing efforts. Well done and thank you.💖
Questions,
answered
Everything you need to know about adopting a coral and managing your account.
Adopting a coral directly funds reef restoration in French Polynesia. Your support covers nursery care, out-planting on damaged reefs, and monitoring. You receive a digital certificate and follow real progress.
1) Adopt in 2 minutes. 2) Our team grows and plants your coral in the reef. 3) You receive a certificate and periodic photo updates you can track.
You can see the coral you adopt with your own eyes and follow the journey to the reef on our Track My Coral page. Once the coral is in our nursery, we'll email you pictures and send you personal updates from the field.
After you adopt a coral, we'll set your username to your first name, making it easy to find your corals on the Track My Coral page. If you wish to stay anonymous you can always change your username.
You can gift one or more corals to a loved one after adopting them. Once your purchase is complete, you will receive an email with a link to our Coral Gifting Form. Through this form, you can specify the recipient of your (first) coral and include a personal message, if desired. If you purchased multiple corals, you'll need to fill out the form separately for each recipient. The recipient will receive a personalized email with your thoughtful gift directly.
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Adopt and collect
Collect cards from every site. Grow your impact.
Every month, we release limited coral drops for each of our 12 sites across Fiji, Thailand, or French Polynesia. Each site has its own Coral Card. Collect them all to help revive the reef.
