Fig 1.
Map of coral reef restoration projects in Spanish-speaking Latin American countries and territories.
Table 1.
Five motivation categories for carrying out coral reef restoration projects and examples.
Table 2.
Summary of the 12 restoration projects in the Caribbean and Eastern Tropical Pacific.
Cost values are given in 2018 USD.
Fig 2.
Types of nurseries described in the text.
a) Floating rope nurseries used in San Andrés and Providencia islands for large-scale coral gardening (Photo: Corales de Paz); b) rope nurseries by FUNDEMAR in Dominican Republic (Photo: Greg Asner); c) FUNDEMAR’s floating in situ coral larvae rearing tank (Photo: Paul Selvaggio); d) Oceanus A.C. diver outplants nursery grown corals in Veracruz, Mexico (Photo: Oceanus A.C.); e) outplanted Acropora palmata coral in Puerto Morelos, Mexico (Photo: Oceanus A.C.); Raising Coral Costa Rica’s tree nurseries in Costa Rica (Photo: David Garcia).
Fig 3.
Percentage of motivation categories (biotic, experimental, idealistic, legislative and pragmatic) for primary (a) and secondary (b) motivation of coral reef restoration projects.
Number of projects: n = 12 for primary and n = 11 for secondary motivation.
Table 3.
Summary of total annual project costs, spatial extent of coral reef area intervened, project duration and feasibility from 12 case studies in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Eastern Tropical Pacific (Fundación Grupo Puntacana’s restoration programs were treated as two independent projects).