OUR PHILOSOPHY
Our philosophy is to provide well-researched and targeted training
and assistance where those we help can then take their knowledge
into their community or industry and pass it on.
Scuba diving attracts thousands of people from all
over the world and the industry itself employs a vast amount of
people from local communities. By targeting the diving industry
to spread our messages, Reef-World believes we will effectively
help to protect our marine life.
Diving tourism has grown around the most unique, diverse and dynamic
coral reefs of SE Asia. Diving brings people unnaturally into fragile
environments and there are consequences. Few coral reefs in the
region remain unaffected by human activities. Efforts to effectively
mitigate these risks will subsequently act to conserve coral reefs
of important global biodiversity.
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OUR NEW TEAM
There are now three permanent members of staff in the Reef-World
Foundation – Anne Miller, Chloe Hunt and James (JJ)
Harvey –
Anne is the founder of the Foundation. Chloe
and JJ met Anne while volunteering for the Green Fins Project
in Thailand. The Reef World Foundation began to support their
work in 2008 and this working relationship has since grown
from strength to strength with Chloe and JJ using advice from
Anne plus their own initiative to carry out work as the Green
Fins Regional Team in SE Asia.
THANKS TO OUR FRIENDS!
Several volunteers have also assisted us over the
years and in some cases, continue to do so. Without these
friends, our work would not be possible and we would like
to thank everyone who has worked with us and provided your
kind support and knowledge.
The Reef-World Foundation is overseen by a Board
of Trustees.
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We work with numerous friends, groups, volunteers, industry
professionals, government officers, NGO staff, fishing families
to achieve both their goals and the Reef-World mission.
The REEF-WORLD’s success lies in its team’s blend of
over 20 years experience working with the diving industry, backgrounds
in Management and Marine Biology expertise.
We have chosen to remain a lean organisation without office administrative
overheads. We prefer to remain a relatively small organisation that
can respond quickly and efficiently to changing needs of the communities
and industries we service to achieve great results. For more details,
please see our Past
Projects page.
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