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Coral Cay Conservation

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Company description Coral Cay Conservation (CCC) is a not-for-profit organisation at the cutting edge of ecotourism. We send teams of volunteers to survey some of the world`s most endangered coral reefs and tropical forests.
Our mission is to protect these crucial environments by working closely with the local communities who depend on them for food and livelihood.
Anyone can be a CCC volunteer. Anyone can help make a real difference!
Some facts about us:
*CCC is a not-for-profit international conservation organisation that helps protect threatened coral reefs and tropical forests.
*CCC runs expeditions to collect scientific information that is used to produce habitat maps and provide management recommendations.
*CCC has been organising conservation expeditions since 1986.
*CCC currently has coral reef expeditions in Fiji, Honduras, and the Philippines and forest expedition in Malaysia and the Philippines.
*CCC does not charge the countries in which it operates. CCC is invited by host countries to assist with existing conservation strategies.
*CCC is largely financed by volunteers who pay to participate in an expedition for anything from 2 weeks+ (no maximum).
Volunteers come from a range of different backgrounds and from ages 16 to 70+.
Volunteers require no scientific background and are trained on–site in marine or terrestrial ecology and survey techniques.
Volunteers with no dive experience or qualifications are trained to PADI Advanced Open Water diver.
*CCC offers PADI dive training up to and including Divemaster.
*CCC has been recognised for its outstanding safety record and procedures.
*CCC actively promotes and provides education in tropical ecology and conservation.
Location description: Coral reefs are the most diverse, productive marine communities and create the biggest, most spectacular structures made by living organisms. Local communities exploit their high productivity and tourists admire their beauty and uniqueness.
A coral reef is a living system comprising of a symbiosis between the animal (polyp) and plant (zooxanthellae). Many polyps aggregate forming colonies that secrete calcium carbonate, creating a collective limestone ``skeleton``. Successive generations of polyps build on top of previous generations ``skeletons`` leading to reef formation. Through symbiosis with zooxanthellae, reef-building (hermatypic) corals are the basis of life in reef communities.
Coral reefs are present in the waters of over 100 countries. These are warm (18-29`C), shallow, sunny regions primarily between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. They support over 25% of all known marine fish species whilst only representing 0.25% of the marine environment.
Reef survival requires temperature, light, depth, water clarity, salinity and water movement to remain within narrow limits.
Temperature:
*Ideal reef-building temperature 25-29 `C
*Within these limits primary reef construction occurs
*Hermatypic corals can survive within the range of 18-36 `C and are confined to tropical waters
*Ahermatypic (non reef-building) corals can survive down to 1 `C
Light:
*Abundant light is required to enable the zooxanthellae to photosynthesise
*Some deep sea corals have adapted to receive virtually no sunlight
Depth:
*Light intensity diminishes with depth
*Zooxanthellae must photosynthesise so few hermatypic corals are found at depths greater than 50 metres
*Ahermatypic corals sustain growth with organic matter from deep sea currents and thus can live to far greater depths
Salinity:
*Hermatypic corals tolerate a salinity range of 27-40 ppt
*Preferred salinity is 36 ppt.
Water movement:
*Refreshes oxygen and plankton supply
*Assists the removal of waste products
Reef structures have been around for 450 million years. The major reef building species has changed from blue-green algae to sponges and corals.Coral reefs as we know them date back 195 million years. Reefs have survived many mass extinctions, the most recent 136 million years ago, prior to which many more hermatypic corals were present (of 7500 known coral species, around 5000 are now extinct).

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Coral Cay Conservation provides resources to help sustain livelihoods and alleviate poverty through the protection, restoration and management of coral reefs and tropical forests.

Contact information:

Phone: +44 (0)870 750 0668
Fax: +44 (0)870 750 0667
Street Address:
40-42 Osnaburgh Street
London
London
United Kingdom
NW1 3ND
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa
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