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

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.

Learning from corals’ natural healing processes through micro fragmentation, combined with on land-based coral farming, the startup Coral Vita grows climate change-resilient corals up to 50 times faster than in nature and restores dying reefs around the world.

Coral Vita was selected as a finalist for the 2022 Ray of Hope Accelerator (formerly Prize), which supports nature-inspired solutions addressing the world's biggest environmental and sustainability challenges.

This is one of 8 films I created for the 2022 cohort of RoH finalists (and 9 films for the 2020 cohort).
It was a joy to learn about the incredible scope of biomimicry and to get to showcase the variety of clever innovations coming out of learning from nature.