NURSERY CORALLINE
Titouan Bernicot, in 2017, decided to found Coral Gardeners and make the repopulation of coral reefs the goal of his life, cultivating very resistant organisms (super-corals) in underwater nurseries to later plant in various parts of the Earth.
He was born in these remote areas of the Pacific: the island of Ahe is nothing more than a dot surrounded by thousands of kilometers of sea.
The coral nursery is repeatedly defined by its creator as the realization of his "childhood dream", that of a child living on an island, convinced that changing the world can begin by repairing a broken branch of coral.
When in 2015 Bernicot noticed that the corals were turning from red to white, he understood that something serious was happening.
Titouan's "office", in five years, managed to put together a team of 25 people made up of biologists, activists and sea lovers.
Their goal is to slow down the disappearance of coral reefs, currently 50%: if the trend does not reverse, by 2050 the percentage could rise to 90%.
Most of the work is done on Mo'orea Island, the so-called other Tahiti, where it all began.
For now, the corals planted by Coral are at 25 thousand, of which a third in the last year alone; Bernicot's collaborators also work, or have worked, in Canada, Turkey and France.
The growth of Bernicot's project is also passing through the involvement of important partners such as North Sails, which dedicated a capsule collection to Coral Gardeners, the pieces of which are worn during the missions, inspired by the sea and made with all recycled materials.
Even entertainment personalities showed their support: Jack Johnson, actor Jason Momoa and Lewis Hamilton.
He was born in these remote areas of the Pacific: the island of Ahe is nothing more than a dot surrounded by thousands of kilometers of sea.
The coral nursery is repeatedly defined by its creator as the realization of his "childhood dream", that of a child living on an island, convinced that changing the world can begin by repairing a broken branch of coral.
When in 2015 Bernicot noticed that the corals were turning from red to white, he understood that something serious was happening.
Titouan's "office", in five years, managed to put together a team of 25 people made up of biologists, activists and sea lovers.
Their goal is to slow down the disappearance of coral reefs, currently 50%: if the trend does not reverse, by 2050 the percentage could rise to 90%.
Most of the work is done on Mo'orea Island, the so-called other Tahiti, where it all began.
For now, the corals planted by Coral are at 25 thousand, of which a third in the last year alone; Bernicot's collaborators also work, or have worked, in Canada, Turkey and France.
The growth of Bernicot's project is also passing through the involvement of important partners such as North Sails, which dedicated a capsule collection to Coral Gardeners, the pieces of which are worn during the missions, inspired by the sea and made with all recycled materials.
Even entertainment personalities showed their support: Jack Johnson, actor Jason Momoa and Lewis Hamilton.