Women Divers Are Leading Honduras' Coral Comeback
On the island of Roatán, a team of women divers and volunteers led by Honduran coordinator Velvet Teos is running the coral reef monitoring program for the Roatán Marine Park. Their surveys uncovered healthy pillar coral colonies now protected as priority sites, and built a dataset that helps reef managers track bleaching damage and recovery year after year.
The upbeat factorThe reef's best guardians are its neighbors