Other engagements

Marine conservation

The ARTEBENE team had the chance to meet the director of the Red Sea Project, Ahmed Fouad, in Egypt. While doing a dive together, we supported the documentation of the turtles and gained a lot of information about the behaviour and species of turtles. The Red Sea Project is an international non-profit organization and their main goal is the protection and conservation of marine ecosystems and biodiversity

With main tasks as coral reef surveys, sea-grass meadow surveys or their turtle monitoring and conservation program they want to fight the consequences of ongoing industrialization, urbanization and tourism.

Photography and measurements are used to identify each specie and enable easy analyses of the behaviour of the turtles. They try to understand the movement, behaviour and routines of each turtle as good as possible.

The project means very much to us and we want to highlight the importance of taking action and protecting the marine ecosystems and the species that live in the Red Sea - as we all want to maintain the colourful and rich underwater world!

ARTEBENE Coral Garden

Together with the Marine Lab Center, we planted a dedicated ARTEBENE coral garden at the Maldives as a special ARTEBENE environmental initiative. Planting corals contributes significantly to the preservation and restoration of sea corals. Intact coral reefs provide shelter to animals, because they are habitat to fishes and millions of other creatures. Moreover, corals protect coasts by reducing the effects of severe sea storms.

To plant coral gardens, small mud balls are formed as a first step. Each mud ball is carefully laid down by hand and, as a second step, planted with a broken coral. Beate and Rüdiger Kress planted more than 100 new corals for ARTEBENE this way and laid the foundation for a new coral garden. This coral block has been entered in the sea chart under the name of ARTEBENE. Now we have to be patient and to wait for what will develop here in the coming years. Many thanks to the whole Marine Lab Center team, we really learned a lot!