THE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE

"Saving Coral Reefs: Climate Change-Resilient Corals Grow 50x Faster With One Natural Healing Process"

The planet has lost more than half of its living coral since 1950, a result of climate change, ocean acidification, overfishing, and pollution. Coral farming is proven to help restore reefs, but standard ocean-based farms are limited in scale, species diversity, and geography, and they are not tailored to enhance corals’ resilience against climate change. Learning from corals’ natural healing processes through micro fragmentation, associated with on land-based farms, the startup Coral Vita grows climate change-resilient corals up to 50 times faster than in nature and restores dying reefs around the world.

The Ray of Hope Accelerator (formerly Prize) supports nature-inspired solutions addressing the world's biggest environmental and sustainability challenges.

I got to tell the finalist’s stories in colour and motion here, to be used by the startups, the institute, news outlets and educational institutions as part of their curriculum.
It was a joy to learn about the incredible scope of biomimicry and the variety of clever innovations coming out of learning from nature.
(One of 8 films I created for the 2022 cohort, and 9 for the 2020 cohort.)

Coral Vita was selected as a finalist for the 2022 Ray of Hope Prize.

Animation: Jules Bartl
Script and Narration: Charlotte Stoddart
Sound Design: Nigel Manington
Fact checker: Rachael Bale