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DeSci and Web3 for Coral Reef Conservation
November, 2024
What is DeSci?
Open Access
Data Sharing
Collaborative Research
IP Ownership
Transparent Funding
“Decentralized science (DeSci) is a movement that aims to build public infrastructure for funding, creating, reviewing, crediting, storing, and disseminating scientific knowledge fairly and equitably using the Web3 stack.”
Ethereum Foundation, 2024
What is a Coral?
+600/+800 species are at SEA
Foundational Species of the Ecosystems
Habitat Variety
High Productivity: +1300 fish sp.
What is a Coral Reef?
Coral Triangle:
SEA Coral Reefs:
30% - 34% of the world's coral reefs = → $2.4 billion annually → Indonesia & Philippines
What is a Coral?
+95% of coral reefs in SEA are threatened
High Biodiversity: Hot Spots�� Sustainable Fishing Practices��Cultural Significance�
Resource Management
Conservation Initiatives
Challenges Facing Traditional Knowledge
GCRMN, 2020
What are Coral Reefs?
Perry & Ove Hoegh-Guldberg et al. 2019; MAR FUND-RRI, 2024
Mesoamerican Reef
+2M Depend Directly = $1.6 B USD per yr
What are Coral Reefs?
Coral Reef Crisis?
Eddy et al, 2021
(A) Global hard coral mean percent cover weighted by area of coral reef in each EEZ. “Estimated baseline” is the percent range for the 1950s indicated by experts in a global survey.
(B) Change in percent coral cover from the first five years of the time series to the last five years of the time series by EEZ.
Coral Reef Crisis?
HR, 2024
Coral health → impacted by disease outbreaks and bleaching��Management → poor
�Water quality concerns → High levels of nutrients
Fish populations → high but small
Non-Profit + DeSci DAO of Coral Reef Conservation in Mesoamerica using web3 tools
Riqueza holística
A Phygital DeSci Hub!
Regen Reef
Biotech + Restoration + DeSci Hub
Modular Wet labs: Coral & Fish
acc/r: Natural Products �Longevity and Regeneration
Regen Reef
Regen Reef
Regen Reef
Regen Reef
Coral Holobiont : �Metaorganism
acc/r: Synthetic Biology
Secondary Metabolites
Assisted Evolution
*Acc/r: accelerate research
Crowdfunded ~$33k USD
+25 Conservation Actions
~50 Members
~21 Months of Existence
13 Web3 and Science forums
MSc. Rodrigo Alfredo NuñΞz-Inzunza
(Coral Reef Ecology,
Web3, DeSci)
PhD. Jesús Ernesto
Arias González
(Coral Reef Ecology)
PhD. Diana �Morales de Anda (Fish Ecology)
PhD. Julieta
Maldonado Sánchez
(Invertebrate Ecology)
PhD. Aarón Israel Muñiz Castillo (Climate Change)
PhD. Andrea �Rivera Sosa �(Coral Bleaching)
PhD. María Geovana
Pech León
(Coral Genomics)
PhD. Johanna �Calle Triviño
(Coral Restoration)
Colleen Flanigan
(Socio-ecological artist)
PhD. Viridiana Alvarado Cerón (Coral Genomics)
MSc. José Luis �Cabrera Pérez �Fish Fisheries)
Antonio Cárdenas
(Google and Web3 Dev)
Reef Futures QF Round!
Looking for Partners for the QF pool!
Community Growth
Product Development
$15,000 USD
$35,000 USD
Director of Photography for mini-documentary
$150,000 USD
Developers
Land-based Facilities: Regen Reef (Coral/Sponges + Fishes)
IoT Devices
C. H. A. R. M. Robot
Landing Page
Head of Comms
Visual Designer
Token Engineering
Travel Costs for Divulgation and Diffusion
Partnerships and Integrations
Miscellaneous Costs
Legal
Regulatory Compliance
Administrative Costs
Insurance
Data Protection
Audits & Certs
Miscellaneous Costs
DAO Tools
$200,000 USD 🌱
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Workshops