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About Biorock

Build additional Biorock structures to grow other artificial reefs in Gili Trawangan. 
Create a new coral reef on Gili Trawangan involving the local population.
Teach the local population how to protect their environment and show them the benefits of reef protection and regeneration for them and their children.
The Biorock structures are also designed as a teaching material for scuba diving. Many specialties can be taught using the structures including underwater photography, fish identification, naturalist and peak performance buoyancy. And a PADI Biorock distinctive Specialty has been created and can be taught in any of the diveshops of Gili Trawangan.
Involve dive instructors and dive masters from the whole island. Teach students to respect marine life with a visit to the structure during a scuba diving course or a fun dive.
Make the following studies: growth rate; survival rate; document the different species of fish settled on the structure; visiting fish numbers and the effect of the “accretion” on the different species of coral…
Get tourists actively involved through contribution to the building, financing and ongoing growth of the structure.
Teach more divers the PADI Biorock distintive specialty course.
Organize Biorock workshop in Gili Trawangan with Thomas Goreau, local businesses, Indonesian universities, western students, dive instructors and others. 
With now 40 Biorock reefs around the Gili Islands, we want to expand the existing reefs, build more for new sponsors and get many people involved... 
 

 
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