Fragments of Hope
Organization Details
Fragments of Hope is a not-for-profit community-based organization registered in 2013 in Placencia Village, Belize. Focusing primarily on the challenge of coral reef restoration and advocacy for the sustainable management of associated habitats, FoH is a partner with the Belize Fisheries Department, Healthy Reefs Initiative, the Smithsonian Institute and a member of the newly formed regional Coral Restoration Coalition. Our work involves efforts from trained fishers, tour guides, regulatory agencies and a handful of local community members trained in our methods .
Impact Story
Prior to 2024 bleaching events, Fragments of Hope (FoH) had re-wilded shallow reefs in southern Belize with the critically endangered Caribbean acroporid corals. Coral cover was increased from less than 6% to over 60% in multiple sites. FoH has subsidized traning for over 90 Belizeans in our methods, and pays qualified Belizeans for the field work. Despite severe bleaching and mortality events (globally) in 2023 and 2024, FoH continues to map survivors and propagate them in ~12 in-water coral nurseries for future outlanting on degraded reefs. FoH has switched annual training workshops to include coral identificatation and bleaching survey methods. In 2024, FoH had 23 Belizeans participatein two subsidized training workshops and plans another workshop for March 2025. Qualified participants are then paid for conducting coral bleaching/health surveys.
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