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Plant a reef from anywhere.
Adopt a coral fragment, planted and cared for in your name on our nurseries in Bira. Watch it grow, offset your footprint, and fund the ocean gardeners doing the work beneath the surface.
What you're joining
A living thing, growing in your name
Adoption isn't a symbol — it's a real coral fragment, lashed to a nursery frame and tended by the same divers who grow our house reef.
A named fragment
Your coral is planted on one of our three nurseries and tagged in your name — a small, real piece of a reef being rebuilt.
Growth updates
We send you photos and progress notes as your fragment matures and outplants onto the living reef.
A discount NFT
Your adoption comes with a GaiaOne discount token — credit toward a future dive, course or retreat with us.
Adopt now
Choose how much reef you'd like to grow
Each coral is $45 — one fragment, planted and tended for a year. Adopt a few to gift, or grow a whole cluster.
Join 31,528+ corals already in the water
One coral fragment, planted and tended for a year in your name.
Secure Xendit checkout · growth updates & discount NFT included
How it works
From your name to a living reef
Adoption is real and traceable — a fragment planted in your name, tended by our ocean gardeners, and returned to the reef.
You adopt
Pick a coral and get a certificate in your name — for yourself or as a gift.
We plant
Our ocean gardeners lash your fragment to a nursery frame across our reefs in Bira.
You get updates
We email you photos and progress notes as your coral grows and outplants onto the reef.
You grow the reef
Once mature, your coral helps rebuild a living reef — bringing fish and biodiversity back.
You're in good company
0 corals planted so far
Every adoption joins a reef already growing — planted by ocean gardeners across Indonesia and Malaysia since 2020. Yours is the next fragment in the water.
Where the $45 goes
Adoption funds the ocean gardeners
This isn't a donation into the void. Your adoption pays the divers, the frames and the fuel that keep the nurseries alive — the unglamorous work that grows a reef.
Fair pay for divers
Local ocean gardeners are trained and paid to plant, clean and monitor the nurseries week after week.
Nursery materials
Frames, tags, rope and tools — the everyday kit that keeps fragments healthy until they outplant.
Monitoring & data
Growth surveys and photos so we know what's thriving, and can grow more of what works.
Not sure which?
Adopt vs donate
Adopt a coral
Fund one real fragment, planted and tended in your name. You get a certificate, growth updates and a GaiaOne discount token — a personal piece of the reef to keep or gift.
Donate to the reef
Fund the whole mission — nurseries, gardener training, cleanups and monitoring. No fragment of your own, just every dollar going straight into the work, wherever it's needed most.
Donate to the reef
Somewhere warm, a reef is waiting for your name.
Plant one coral or a whole cluster. Either way, something real starts growing today.