Coral Cay Conservation provides resources to help sustain livelihoods and alleviate poverty through the protection, restoration and management of coral reefs and tropical forests. Our mission is to protect these crucial environments by working closely with the local communities who depend on them for food and livelihood. We are a not-for-profit organisation at the cutting edge of ecotourism, sending teams of volunteers to survey some of the world`s most endangered coral reefs and tropical forests. CCC actively promotes and provides education in tropical ecology and conservation.

Coral Cay Conservation [CCC] is a not-for-profit organisation at the cutting edge of ecotourism. We send teams of volunteers to survey some of the world`s most endangered coral reefs and tropical forests.

Anyone can be a CCC volunteer. Anyone can help make a real difference!

Working With Communities

CCC is widely recognized for its pioneering work in the assessment of tropical forests and coral reefs ecosystem. In comparison, the environmental education and awareness programmes that run alongside biophysical data collection are less well documented.

CCC recognizes the importance of including all resource users of a region within an environmental education and awareness programme. CCC targets a diverse range of audiences including local schoolchildren, village community leaders, resort guests, dive instructors and tourism guides. A combination of outreach visits and on site events is practiced. Counterpart training is also offered as part of the CCC Scholarship Award Programme or through specialized workshops. Environmental education and awareness activities [EAA] are common to all CCC projects.

As well as the specific EEA activities targeting particular stakeholder audiences, the presence of a CCC project in a region also raises environmental awareness through a variety of approaches. A series of workshops and presentations held when CCC begins a new project initiates the process by explaining the reasoning behind the presence of the NGO. This means of transferring information is also used extensively in the latter stages of a project when the recommendations for the conservation of coral reef habitats and resources are presented to local stakeholders and project partners.