reefscan works to innovate...

Working proactively to support stakeholders in need, from fishers to divers, or divers who were once fishers.
In the three months following typhoon Haiyan in 2013, ReefScan delivered the equivalent of 12.5 million litres of clean drinking water to coastal communities in the Philippines after the typhoon made landfall.
Reefscan works with stakeholders in need to help them proactively solve problems which might otherwise lead to less sustainable resource use. These problem solving clinics are designed to support direct interventions, without a middle operator so that any donations go as directly to the person in need, as possible.
In late 2024 the reefscan website was badly hacked and had to be rehosted and is currently being redesigned.
Please bear this in mind when visiting the site.
However, we are pleased to announce that ReefScan's most popular video, has reached over 300,000 views on YouTube.
Click play to view the experience of monitoring conflict and cooperation between fishers onboard an IUU observation study back in 2009.
Past News...
Reefscan During COVID
Watch Felimar's story about how he lost his job as a Divemaster. Due to lack of tourism, he and his colleagues struggled to survive through COVID, and how he built a more robust fishing boat using epoxy resin, from donations made via a ReefScan campaign.Share this Post
ReefScan 2020
From 2015 to 2020, ReefScan gathered genetic field data in the UK relating to stakeholder consumption of elasmobranch commodities. This work has been in collaboration with @ExeterMarine at the University of Exeter involving barcode genetic analysis led by Dr Andrew Griffiths. The results were highly innovative steps at the time in that the samples were highly processed and the tissues highly degraded in comparison to "fresh" DNA samples. These innovative techniques combined with careful investigative sourcing of samples were key in developing this methodology and revealing the situation in the UK. Read the full report in published in Nature free via ResearchGate.Share this Post
Illegal Fishing & Climate Change
Watch ReefScan's collaborative efforts with Interpol, BBC Earth and the Pew Charitable Trusts. This video represents some of the challenging work reefscan has undertaken over the past 20 years to better understand food insecurity in communities impacted by marine biodiversity loss through combined pressures of illegal fishing and climate change.Share this Post

empathy and innovation
Where land meets the Ocean, both biodiversity and humanity so often struggle to survive the direct impact of climate change.
ReefScan works to support innovation and generate both empathy and understanding in problem solving these challenges.
ReefScan also seeks to empower solutions for a diverse range of problems often involving food security, biodiversity loss and livelihoods of fishing communities.