Help Save Our Coral Reefs
with a Project REEFrame eGift cardSponsorship is the primary funding source for our project and your sponsorship of a artificial reef or nursery table goes a long way to help us achieve our conservation goals.
Coral needs a hard surface to grow on, and although our local water conditions are very favorable to coral growth, the sea floor of the UAE coastline is mainly just sand where coral can’t grow. The natural coral reefs grow on the limited areas of rocky outcrop on the seafloor or around small islands, and these are the areas where we rescue naturally broken coral fragments from the sand before they get covered in sediment and die.
These fragments are nursed back to health on our nursery tables and grown until we can transplant them onto artificial reefs.
Project REEFrame is creating new areas for coral to grow, transforming a barren sandy seascape into beautiful coral reefs, bustling with life and biodiversity. Over the next decade, the REEFrame structures will provide the framework to recreate natural reefs in areas where they were previously lost.
The UAE shallow water reefs have been hit hard over recent years by increasing sea temperatures that have caused major coral bleaching events, and some species of coral are almost extinct in our local waters.
Project REEFrame is rescuing as much coral as possible and placing it at cooler depths to ensure we preserve this vital resource for future generations.
Act now to help us to save our coral reef ecosystems before it is too late!
You can review and select your sponsorship options below, if you don’t find what you want, please contact us to design a custom solution!
Sponsor Project REEFrame
Project REEFrame is entirely funded by private and corporate sponsorship, we need your help to save our coral reefs
Help us to Protect our Coral reefs now!
Become a sponsor and Help Us Avoid the destruction of our coastal resources Before It Is Too Late!
Rescue a Coral
This sponsorship allows us to rescue a coral from the sea floor, plant it on our nursery tables and nurture it into a larger coral colony that can be replaced onto the natural reef or transplanted onto an artificial reef.
In addition to sponsoring the rescue of a coral, there are four ways for individuals and corporates to sponsor Project REEFrame, either as a personal project, a gift for a friend or loved one or as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project. Click your choice below to discover more!
Offer a Project REEFrame eGift Card
With the kind collaboration of First Abu Dhabi Bank and YouGotaGift, we have launched the Project REEFrame eGift program. You can now offer a gift to an ocean-loving relative, friend or co-worker which helps us rescue coral, create reef structures or even train them to become a Project REEFrame Volunteer! You can choose your own custom gift value or select one of our gifts with a pre-defined value .
Sponsor a Coral Nursery Table
Coral Nursery Tables are the “greenhouses” of our garden, this is where we nurture the rescued coral to a size that can be planted back out onto the natural reef or onto artificial reef structures.
Sponsor an Artificial Reef
Artificial Reefs are the structures that we build to create new places for coral to grow. This is how we create new reefs in barren sandy areas that will attract marine life and create a new biodiverse ecosystem.
Help us educate volunteers through our scholarship program!
Become a sponsor of the Project REEFrame education program and help build our volunteer pool!
The Project REEFrame Scholarship Program is funded by sponsorships and allows us to train volunteers and citizen scientists of all ages to perform coral propagation and scientific monitoring of the reefs. Saving our coral reefs is extremely labour intensive and helping us to build a skilled community of practitioners is a vital component of the project’s success.
If you would like to discuss your sponsorship options or find out more about Project REEFrame, please leave your contact details below and our team will contact you shortly.