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Registration for summer’s Coral Reef Camp now open
Reef Guardians nonprofit receives statewide award for Reef Camps on Kaua‘i beaches
Non-native coral found multiple times in the water off of 'Anini
Someone planted non-native coral at 'Anini Beach; DAR relies on community to report fishy goings-on
Non-Native Corals Removed From 'Anini Lagoon on Kauai
Reef Camp teaches Kaua‘i’s keiki aloha ‘aina
Shark Awareness Day with Reef Guardians
Help name Kauai's resident Hawksbill turtle!
Coral at 'Anini bay making a comeback
Hawaii reefs bouncing back
Learning through Keiki Reef Camp
Studying climate change on the reefs
Coral Reef Kids Camp in the News
Coral Health "Signs of Hope"
march 30, 2024
Non-native coral found multiple times in the water off of 'Anini
Kauai, Hawaii
All Back in 2021, Robin Mazor and Tom Woods of Hawai'i nonprofit organization 'Reef Guardians,' were at Anini Beach on a routine snorkel to monitor reef activity and fish population when they discovered something unusual.
"I was highly concerned," Mazor said. "We immediately began to take pictures."
march 23, 2024
Someone planted non-native coral at 'Anini Beach; DAR relies on community to report fishy goings-on
Kauai, Hawaii
All is not well in the waters off 'Anini Beach on the North Shore of Kaua'i, where a three-year-old mystery with calamitous potential continues to baffle those tasked with conserving the area ecosystem. Reef Guardians--an ocean conservation nonprofit based on Kaua'i and in Santa Barbara, California-routinely monitors coral reefs across the Garden Isle.
january 22, 2024
Non-Native Corals Removed From 'Anini Lagoon on Kauai
Kauai, Hawaii
In the summer of 2021, Robin Mazor and Tom Woods with the non-profit organization Reef Guardians Hawaiʻi contacted the Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) to let them know that while snorkeling in the lagoon at ʻAnini (Wanini) beach on Kauaʻi, they saw some corals that were unfamiliar to them and appeared to have been placed onto the reef.
september 22, 2023
Hawksbill Sea Turtle Discovery Inspires Ocean Education
Kauai, Hawaii
A rare, endangered hawksbill sea turtle was discovered during a reef monitoring session in Kauai's north shore waters by Executive Director Robin Mazor. Reef Guardians Hawaii partnered with Hawaiian Hawksbill Conservation to photo-identify the turtle. The collected data helps increase understanding of hawksbill behavior and population dynamics to further conservation efforts.
april 30 2019
Reef Guardians heads to Russia with Cousteau Team to free Orca and Beluga in Whale Jail
Srednyaya Bay, Russia
RGH Founder, Harry Rabin, was invited to join the Cousteau Team and Whale Sanctuary Project to head first to Moscow, for diplomatic meetings, and then on to Vladivostok and the infamous Srednyaya Bay in an effort to free 10 Orca and 87 Belugas held in the so-called Whale Jail. All 10 Orca and 87 Beluga have been returned to their home in the Sea of Okhotsk!
april 18 2019
Reef Guardians works with Heal the Ocean to locate leaking oil well heads
Summerland, California
Reef Guardians (RGH) has teamed up with California State Lands Commission, Interact, and Hillary Hauser, Executive director of world-renowned Heal the Ocean to locate leaking offshore abandoned oil well heads in Santa Barbara County.
Read the full Press Release
april 18 2019
Reef Guardians research project "AI on the Reef" - "Robots on the Reef" receives multiple grants and gear from Microsoft, ESRI, Powervision, Paralenz and Manitou Foundation!
Kauai, Hawaii & Florida
Aggressive monitoring is the goal here and utilizing the power of intelligent drones that can capture images fly repetitive headings on land and in the sea are key components to monitoring a reefs health.
We are heading to Florida end of Feb. 2020 to continue discussions with FIU and their interest to participate in our research!
april 16 2019
Reef Guardians working with Dr. Doug McCauley, UCSB MSI to develop AI Drone that can detect sharks
Santa Barbara, California
The McCauley lab, lead by Dr. Doug McCauley at UCSB's Marine Science Institute, will be using select RGH footage from a 3 year library collected on Great White shark juveniles. The Great White Shark studies were both commissioned and conducted by Reef Guardians along with CSU Long Beach Shark Lab and filmed by On the Wave Productions. Over 15 of these sharks were tagged and tracked over the past 2 years. The videos we are providing to the McCauley Lab are helping to create algorithms, mathmatical models, for the software that will eventually determine and track in real time great white and other sharks in recreational areas such as local beaches where we humans share the ocean with all creatures that dwell within it!