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Taking sins out of the water

In October, to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Keys Jewish Community Center (KJCC) decided to mix tradition up with a local mangrove cleanup. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New...
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“Now is the time to have your voice heard.”

The Board of Directors of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Foundation encourages you to participate in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary’s Restoration Blueprint process. Now...
Scenes from Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary top national contest - Underwater view of a plant - Coral reef

Scenes from Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary top national contest

      Tiffany Duong Instagram: @lilicedt, @oceanrebels Facebook: facebook.com/tiffanyduong Website: www.tiffanyduong.com “Moving to the Keys and diving in the FKNMS has been one of the best decisions of my life. The blue here...
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Where are we with the Restoration Blueprint? — How the review process works

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary released its Restoration Blueprint on August 20, 2019, opening five months of public comment. The document includes four alternatives. Alternative 1 is no...

Council to Craft Response to Restoration Blueprint

Monroe’s Board of County Commissioners approved a resolution during its Nov. 20 meeting urging the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to hear stakeholder comments, while conveying a...
Not Your Mother’s Veggie Burger – Meatless burger drives profits, aims to curb climate change and deforestation - A sandwich cut in half - Hamburger

Not Your Mother’s Veggie Burger

If I told you eating a burger could help save the world, you might color me crazy and tell me to just pass the meat. After all,...
Captain Steve Friedman

“Random massive closures are not the answer. Education and enforcement are what’s needed.”

Rooted in conservation since the early 50’s, the Florida Keys Fishing Guides Association (“FKFGA”) has long been involved the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary’s (“FKNMS”) management practices...
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Mote’s new “Reef Revival” Program

Mote Marine Laboratory has partnered with Captain Hook’s Dive Center in Big Pine to put the tools for coral restoration into our hands. During the new “Reef...
WORTH THE WAIT – CRF corals spawn later than predicted - A man swimming in the dark - Free-diving

WORTH THE WAIT – CRF corals spawn later than predicted

Each year, just after the August full moon, scientists, divers, and coral nerds in the Keys hang out at the bottom of the ocean in the middle...
Captain Michael Barber

About Restoring the Reefs of Florida

Let’s all backup a minute here and inventory what we know or suspect is causing the degradation of the coral reefs.  There are the various natural phenomena...

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