In celebration of World Oceans Month, Inter Miami CF teamed up with Main Partner Royal Caribbean for a second year to sponsor $5,000 worth of coral restoration expeditions with University of Miami’s Rescue a Reef program.
The citizen science program at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric and Earth Science, has a central mission – to raise public awareness and action on coral conservation. Through its citizen science field expeditions, Rescue a Reef provides meaningful, hands-on opportunities for local South Florida community members to garden, restore and support threatened coral species in the area.
The collaborative efforts of this initiative will result in over a thousand coral colonies being planted by locals onto the reefs just miles from Miami’s shoreline.
Homegrown Inter Miami First Team players Benjamin Cremaschi (Key Biscayne) and Noah Allen (Pembroke Pines) joined Royal Caribbean Group and research divers from Rescue a Reef on a coral restoration expedition last week to give back to the community’s local marine life.
Allen and Cremaschi took a dive into “Royal Caribbean Group Reef,” a coral restoration site for research and rehabilitation, where they laid the groundwork that will build up lively neighborhoods of coral colonies, providing shelter, food and nursery areas for various marine species. The corals gardened by Dr. Diego Lirman's Coral Restoration Lab at the Rosenstiel School are also used for world-leading research on coastal protection, coral resiliency, and reef function.
Along with the Club’s donation to Rescue a Reef, Inter Miami has also donated $5,000 to World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to support Royal Caribbean in their Oceans Month Sea Turtle initiatives. Fans can learn more about the allocation of funds HERE.
Inter Miami CF is proud to have taken part in this special World Oceans Day initiative and looks forward to continuing its support of the Rosenstiel School’s Rescue a Reef program and South Florida’s endangered ocean life through future initiatives to come.
