On June 5, 1997, the Presidents of Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, and the Prime Minister of Belize met in Tulum, Mexico and signed an agreement known as the Tulum Declaration. This agreement promised to promote sustainable use of the reef system and promised to establish coordinated conservation efforts and cooperative programs and projects. In 2007, the leaders of these nations signed a renovation of the commitment to protect the MAR and to commemorate this agreement March 10th was declared the Mesoamerican Coral Reef System Day.

The Mayan Reef Alliance, developed by our partners Restore Coral, is the integration of the latest assisted coral reproduction techniques and coral reef technology with a scalable market based solution that allows Academia, Civic Society, Private & Public Sectors to participate and collaborate on the coral restoration of the Mesoamerican Reef.

By engaging these sectors through an Alliance for the purpose of mitigation, resilience and replanting corals we can achieve the following:

• New stock of biodiverse Corals for the already naturally protected areas
• Research and education of the best methods of replanting coral
• Development of emerging technologies such as robotics and A.I for the landscaping of marine ecosystems on an industrial scale
• A Coral resilience program that includes cryogenization and coral genomes R&D with the goal of ocean geo-engineering
• The spread of this coral farming knowledge around the world
• Participation of universities and students for coral restoration in professional practices
• Local communities participating in the construction of coral farms and artificial coral reefs
• The creation of cooperatives responsible for taking drivers to underwater farms

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