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(From left) Frances Tong, Michael Solomon, Conner Humann, Anela Kerber, Damien Beri, Heidi Hirsh, Adam Dolak and Liz Tarquin are part of the team behind nonprofit The Coral Conservancy.<\/p><\/div>\n

Damien Beri\u2019s deep dive into the world of marine conservation led him to form The Coral Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to saving as many coral reefs as possible.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The year 2052 sounds like a made-up, futuristic date. After all, it\u2019s only a decade off from when The Jetsons<\/em> took place \u2014 and they had flying cars. The reality is, it\u2019s only a mere 30 years from today and, according to scientific experts, that\u2019s when coral reefs could become nearly extinct.<\/p>\n

There are more than 400,000 acres of reef in the main Hawaiian Islands, home to thousands of species of marine plants and animals. Miles and miles from this aquatic wonderland, Damien Beri, who was born and bred in the Big Apple, would look at it through a screen. He credits the late Ruth Gates, a leader in local reef exploration, for sparking his zeal for the lives that live under the sea.<\/p>\n

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Seventeen-yearold intern Anela Kerber trains to handle, transport and inspect coral for viability. PHOTO COURTESY CONNER HUMANN <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cA lot of my initial inspiration came from watching online videos, watching Ruth Gates talking about corals, and how she was a doer and she got things done for the reefs,\u201d he says. \u201cBeing born and raised in New York City, I consider myself a doer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beri earned a master\u2019s degree in marine conservation and policy from Stony Brook University and not long after found himself on a 10-hour flight from one side of the country to the other to intern for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s Protected Resources Division. Yearning to do more, Beri sought coral restoration organizations to get involved with but came up short.<\/p>\n

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The Coral Conservancy president Damien Beri shows intern Anela Kerber, a Punahou School student, how to transport coral and safely ensure it\u2019s protected during training. PHOTO COURTESY CONNER HUMANN <\/strong>
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\u201cThroughout that time (with NOAA), I went with my mentor to all of the different coral restoration nurseries and met with many of the leaders in coral restoration here on the island,\u201d he recalls. \u201cEven through doing that, I struggled to find a way to put my skills in coral restoration to use. There was no opportunity for me to get involved in coral restoration in Hawai\u2018i, which I was shocked by because Hawai\u2018i has lost about 50% of its coral reefs. Why wouldn\u2019t there be more avenues for people like myself and all the other community members in Hawai\u2018i to participate in coral restoration?\u201d<\/p>\n

Becoming the answer to his own question, Beri established The Coral Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that seeks to upscale restoration efforts through community outreach.<\/p>\n

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A trained volunteer discovered a piece of coral at Ala Moana Beach Park that needs the nonprofit\u2019s help. PHOTO COURTESY DAMIEN BERI<\/strong>
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\u201cI took it upon myself to bring together a team of world-renowned scientists and experts in coral restoration, policy and nonprofit organizations, and I reached out to several politicians on the island to craft a permit \u2026 which would allow the people of Hawai\u2018i to get hands-on with coral restoration and make a difference. Not just an activity to do, but something that will make a real difference on our island for its community members,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

As president, Beri works alongside board members Heidi Hirsh, Liz Tarquin and Coppy Hulzman, as well as countless advisers that include Fiji-based coral restoration pioneer Austin Bowden-Kerby; Phil Dustan, who was a part of the award-winning documentary Chasing Coral<\/em>; Ken Nedimyer, founder of Coral Restoration Foundation; and Ellen Pikitch, executive director of the Institute of Ocean Conservation at Beri\u2019s alma mater, Stony Brook University.<\/p>\n

Together, the team orchestrates field training and educational lectures for community members who are willing and able to plunge headfirst into the underwater world of all things coral.<\/p>\n

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As a way to get younger generations involved with conservation activities, The Coral Conservancy holds community events, including a recent beach cleanup at Makapu\u2018u Beach Park with Community 808 and Ban\u00e1n Hawai\u2018i.
PHOTO COURTESY BAN\u00c1N HAWAI\u2018I<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cWe want to be fully community-based, like we want the community to lead our organization,\u201d says Beri. \u201cFor structural purposes, we have people on paper, but it\u2019s really the volunteers that make our organization what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those interested can sign up for the nonprofit\u2019s training exercises (follow @the.coral.conservancy for updates), which are held at Kaimana Beach in Waik\u012bk\u012b for a simulated coral restoration exercise and at Hawai\u2018i Kai Retirement Community, where they learn the ABCs and 123s of the operation. Volunteers will learn how to clean and prepare corals for transition; the materials and supplies used for coral restoration; what a broken coral looks like and where it should be planted to save it; other important marine species that are necessary to uphold the balance and ecosystem of the reef; and safety skills in the water.<\/p>\n

Once they\u2019re ready for the real deal, Beri and his team will take volunteers to the nonprofit\u2019s only permitted site, Makai Research Pier in Waim\u0101nalo, where they are legally allowed to take care of one species of coral, porites evermanni.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are the first organization ever to work with this species,\u201d Beri says. \u201cWe chose this coral because it\u2019s an incredibly resilient, heat tolerant, genetically superior, super coral, and the efforts and what we do with this coral won\u2019t be for nothing because it\u2019s been shown to survive warming, higher, more acidic conditions in the ocean.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe permitting process was extremely rigorous, and it took a very long time,\u201d he continues. \u201cThe reality is that corals die faster than it takes for someone to apply for a permit to save it. It took us a year to get our permit, and corals don\u2019t have that long.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Coral Conservancy\u2019s overarching goal is to garner a permit large enough to cover a broad area of coral reefs that need saving, which, frankly, is most of them. Its permit now is restricted to one region and one type of coral, and Beri, while grateful, says it\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur baseline for acquiring this permit was that we would be responding to the broken and damaged corals that are strewn around our island,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe have a very high density on a very small island, and the reefs are right up against the shore, so there\u2019s consistent impact for not only natural sources breaking apart reefs but people, boats and fishing, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many broken corals in our reefs and so many divers and marine community members who are a part of this community willing to help, and, logistically, our plan was to have a permit that would allow us to develop emergency response methods whereas we find, locate and identify broken, damaged and dying corals, and save them right then and there. We don\u2019t bring them to a nursery, we don\u2019t take them to other locations, we find the corals that need the help and we save them, and we train the community members of Hawai\u2018i to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until that\u2019s possible, The Coral Conservancy will continue to do what it can to help preserve one of the most vital ecosystems on the planet.And, sure enough, the proof is already in the pudding. Volunteer Frances Tong, who found out about the organization after reading about it right here in MidWeek O\u2018ahu<\/em>\u2019s \u201cProof Positive\u201d feature (published April 7, 2021), discovered a giant pocillopora eydouxi (or antler coral) \u2014 one of the last of its kind in the area \u2014 at Ala Moana Beach Park that was nearly destroyed by a boat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to name it the MidWeek <\/em>coral,\u201d says Beri. \u201cThe beautiful thing about that coral is that one of our trained volunteers who went through our program found it. That shows that our training program is actually working. We put our request in to the state, but we still haven\u2019t heard back and it\u2019s been months. This coral is one of the last remaining ones in the area, it\u2019s dying, it was damaged by people and we\u2019re trying to do something to save it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that we cannot do this alone, and that\u2019s the whole purpose of our organization\u201d he says. \u201cNo one organization or person or thing or method is going to save coral reefs. It\u2019s going to take all of us. It is all of our responsibility to do something.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Beri, 2052 is well within his lifetime (he\u2019s 28) and even more so in generations after his. This, coupled with his pure intrigue and respect for the sea and its creatures, makes this task his life\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s our young generation that is inheriting the reefs,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are inheriting a destroyed ecosystem. It is our \u2014 it is my \u2014 responsibility at this age to start doing something. If I\u2019m not doing something, I\u2019m doing myself and the planet a disservice.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on The Coral Conservancy, visit thecoralconservancy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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