Our Partners

Dive Shop Members The following dive shop centers, resorts, boat operators, and instructors demonstrate their support for Reef Renewal Foundation Curaçao. Each one serves as an active center of outreach and education for reef restoration here on Curaçao. They offer Reef Renewal Diver courses and guided dives in the coral nurseries or restoration sites. They ...

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Our Team

Meet the Reef Renewal Staff ManagerTripp Funderburk Tripp Funderburk is the Manager of the Reef Renewal Curacao (RRC). He is responsible for nursery construction and maintenance; coral outplanting and monitoring; and teaching visiting and volunteer divers about coral restoration Before managing RRC, Tripp managed the Bay Islands Reef Restoration and Roatan Marine Park coral nursery ...

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Our Priorities

Since 2015, Reef Renewal Foundation Curaçao has been dedicated to restoring Curaçao’s coral reefs through innovative coral nurseries and restoration techniques. Guided by these key priorities, we continue to restore Staghorn and Elkhorn corals, educate people from around the world about how they can help, and use the latest science and research to guide and ...

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Mission and History

Our History Reef Renewal Foundation Curaçao (formerly known as Coral Restoration Curaçao) is a non-profit organization that was set up in 2015 by the initiative of Ocean Encounters Diving Curaçao. After seeing the impact of the work that Coral Restoration Foundation was doing and the success of Reef Renewal Foundation Bonaire, Ocean Encounters was keen ...

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