Community
What we give back to the places that host us.
In Labuan Bajo, Amare Divers runs a coral restoration program in and around Komodo National Park. Guests and students do not only dive past the reef. They learn to repair it: trimming coral fragments, fixing them to nursery frames and planting them out on damaged ground.
Coral grows one to three centimetres a year. Left alone, a damaged reef takes decades to recover. With a nursery and outplanting, that can fall to two to five years. Everyone who takes part leaves with the GPS position of the coral they planted.
In Bali, Chef Maria Huyen is preparing a second program: sharing what she has learned about process, hygiene, workflow and marketing with the women who run small roadside warungs, so they can earn more for their families while keeping their own cooking.
