Deploying Atabey
At the current rate, it is estimated all of our coral reefs will be gone by 2050.
Coral reefs support 25% of all marine life.
They protect our coastlines and provide food, medicine and livelihood to over a billion people.
Without them, we may have a rippling economic and ecosystem collapse.
With half our coral reefs still left, we have a window of opportunity to protect and restore this vital ecosystem.
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We are the Global Coralition, a 501c3 organization using art to initiate reef restoration efforts in regions experiencing reef decline.
We are currently in Sosua, Dominican Republic where we are building a sculpture of Atabey, the Mother Earth spirit of the Taino people. The Taino people are the indigenous people of this land. She will be deployed into Sosua Bay, where we will be transplanting coral on and around her, while training the local dive community to work with us. Simultaneously, we are enforcing Sosua Bay as a marine protected area which is allowing the fish populations to bounce back, we are pushing to bring recycling technology to the island as well as improve the river water quality that flows into the bay. These efforts together, can give us the best chance to rehabilitate the marine ecosystem of Sosua Bay.
As we near completion of Atabey, she will become the tallest underwater sculpture in the world, we are asking for support to safely deploy her. The deployment will be both a Taino ceremony and an engineering feat. She will stand on a 15 foot wide, 5 foot tall base weighing 30,000 pounds that will anchor her. She will stand 14 feet tall, surrounded by waves that serve as coral nurseries.
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