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The REEF-WORLD Foundation is a UK-based charity that has worked with local people to conserve coral reefs in Thailand for over 10 years and is now working within other Asia Pacific countries and internationally as part of the global coral reef community.

Our field of experience has been in working with both the diving community and local fishing communities to provide information about life on coral reefs and helping members of those communities find their own role in wider plans to protect reefs and related ecosystems.

OUR MISSION
Our mission is to inspire and empower people to act in
conserving and sustainably developing coastal resources, particularly coral reefs and related ecosystems for the benefit of local communities
and visitors.

THAILAND
In Thailand, we work in
partnership with the Phuket Marine Biological Centre (PMBC) in Thailand, who are responsible for managing Thailand's Coral Reefs to the National Plan and we work with the United Nations Environment Programme's COBSEA Unit, who manage the Global Plan for Coral Reefs in the Asian-Pacific area, covering 10 countries.

GREEN FINS
In 2004, UNEP launched the Green Fins programme in
Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines and Malaysia in 2008. Reef-World's role in the programme has been to create a training and support package for Green Fins members and now encompasses overall management of the assessment system and programme.

For more details on this and to see how you can get involved, please Green Fins.

2009 Projects
Please click here to find out more about current activities...

Past Projects
The relationship between Reef-World and the PMBC began in 1993 and has covered a range of different projects - for more details, click here >>