Visibility
Putting coral where people already are, not where they have to go looking.
Art & Culture
A reef nobody sees is a reef nobody defends.
Art carries the coral conversation into streets, festivals and public spaces, where people meet the reef long before they ever reach the water.
Restore Coral Mural Project
Painting the reef onto the walls of the coast.
Since 2015 we have worked with urban artists to bring coral onto walls across Mexico. What began in Tulum, Cozumel and Playa del Carmen has since reached the Pacific coast, with murals in Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo.
Each mural is made with artists and local partners who share a commitment to the marine ecosystem — turning a wall into an argument for the reef that lives nearby.
Why art
Science explains the reef. Culture makes people care about it.
Data alone rarely changes behaviour. A mural on the route to the beach, a painting in a festival, a piece of work that stops someone mid-walk — these reach people who would never read a report.
Belonging
Making the reef part of local identity, painted by and for the communities beside it.
Memory
Leaving something permanent in places where the ecosystem itself is fragile.
Working with artists
The reef has more
collaborators than it knows.
We work with muralists, illustrators, photographers and cultural organisations who want their work to serve something beyond the wall.
Artists bring the reach; the reef brings the reason.
Help carry the reef
further inland.
Support the work that keeps coral visible in the culture of the coast.
