sharing our impact
Yaf Keru: Honest Restoration & Transparent Results
At The SEA People, we believe in honesty and transparency. Our reef restoration and conservation effort, through Yaf Keru, is rooted in sharing the full story—successes, challenges, and even the moments when things didn’t go as planned.
Over the years, we’ve refined our restoration techniques based on experience and observation, striving to optimise our chances of success. The truth is, just like any garden on land or any natural process, the unexpected can happen, and no single technique guarantees perfection and success 100% of the time.
Yaf Keru’s approach to measuring restoration impact reflects this honesty. Every square meter stabilised or restored is recorded as exactly that – no extrapolated estimates or inflated claims. While this method often underestimates the broader impact (such as natural coral recruitment or stabilisation between restored areas, as well as avoided loss), it ensures that our metrics are direct, verifiable, and transparently shared with our community, funders, partners, and stakeholders. This commitment to integrity helps us avoid “greenwashing” and maintain trust in our work.
To bring this transparency to life, we’ve created the Yaf Keru Interactive Map. This tool is our way of sharing the real story of Yaf Keru – its scale, impact, and evolution… in real time. It presents our results as they happen, unfiltered and honest. The map also publicly acknowledges those who support our efforts and provides a way for those who have transplanted corals with us to track the results of their contributions, no matter where they are in the world.
The information on this map comes from regular monitoring dives conducted by our team. During these dives, we measure and document multiple metrics, including taking photos of set points, and uploading them to the map with detailed descriptions. The map allows you to see the evolution of any restoration site—or even specific points within a site—over time.
We invite you to ‘dive in’ and explore. Witness the growth, change, and challenges of our restoration sites, and see how we adapt and evolve based on what the reef is telling us.
OUR IMPACT
Yaf Keru: An Interactive Map
Explore our interactive map to see the impact of our restoration efforts, and how our restored sites grow and change over time.
Click Here to see the map clearly on your mobile device.
HELP US REBUILD REEFS, ONE FRAGMENT AT A TIME
Join Us For A Day Of Reef Restoration:
Exploring the stunning marine landscapes of Raja Ampat comes with a hidden cost: the environmental footprint left behind by travel; from carbon emissions to local ecological impacts such as pollution and waste. Recognizing this, we invite you to transform your visit to Raja Ampat into a meaningful journey of restoration and giving forward. Instead of merely trying to compensate for the impacts made, we encourage a more proactive approach to conservation that has a lasting impact beyond the duration of your stay.
Click Here and found out how you can spend the day with our reef restoration team.
100% of your donation goes to
the field.
For every €20 received we can:
- Restore 1m² of degraded coral reef in Raja Ampat
- Protect 1m² of thriving primary reef
- Support local community livelihoods through training, employment, and capacity building.
If left unchecked, 90% of coral reefs will be threatened by 2030, with almost all reefs facing, high, very high, or critical threat levels by 2050.
If we don’t act now, future generations will not have the privilege of seeing a live coral reef, let alone receive the benefits that coral reefs provide, including food, coastal protection, livelihoods and medicine.
In Raja Ampat, Indonesia, the most biodiverse coral reefs on Earth are under threat; rapid and unsustainable development combined with climate change threaten the future of these reefs, along with the food security, heritage and livelihoods of many.
Your contribution today has a direct impact in enabling our team to work with local people to Restore, Protect and Conserve reefs in the world’s last remaining coral stronghold.
We cannot do it alone, but with your contribution we can do it together.
100% of your donation goes to
the field.
If left unchecked, 90% of coral reefs will be threatened by 2030, with almost all reefs facing, high, very high, or critical threat levels by 2050.
If we don’t act now, future generations will not have the privilege of seeing a live coral reef, let alone receive the benefits that coral reefs provide, including food, coastal protection, livelihoods and medicine.
In Raja Ampat, Indonesia, the most biodiverse coral reefs on Earth are under threat; rapid and unsustainable development combined with climate change threaten the future of these reefs, along with the food security, heritage and livelihoods of many.
Your contribution today has a direct impact in enabling our team to work with local people to Restore, Protect and Conserve reefs in the world’s last remaining coral stronghold.
We cannot do it alone, but with your contribution we can do it together.
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