The “Rotary Reefs” project is part of the Rotary Club of Newport Beach’s 30-year plan to help save our planet.
Our project is located in Bocas Del Toro, Panama. Our goal is to convey the urgency and need to tackle ongoing ecological loss among coral and fish communities around Bocas del Toro and we hope our project can be replicated throughout the world.
Rotary Reefs
Steve Bender, the President of Newport Beach Rotary club, met with government officials, Rotary clubs, and Doug Marcy of Caribbean Coral Restoration to create a plan to implement the Rotary Reef project.
Together, they are working to mitigate the overexploited fish populations and declining coral reef populations to improve marine ecosystem health.
100 Foot Rotary Reef
In addition to creating a 100 foot Rotary wheel, they have placed 26 mini Rotary wheel reefs and other reliever reefs throughout the archipelago with great success.
Fundraising Bricks
The Rotary Club of Newport Beach is funding the reef program and supporting 50 projects that benefit the region and planet.
Bricks for the wheelchair trail through the Rotary rainforest are $100 each with $1.00 of each brick sold going to each of our 50 selected charities for the 2021-2022 Rotary year. Each project’s performance will be evaluated annually and a new list will be created every year.
