Conserving Florida’s Coral Reef
With your help, we can rescue and restore Florida’s Coral Reef and share the wonders of our waters with generations to come.
Discover Florida’s hidden treasure
Florida’s Coral Reef stretches almost 350 miles from the Dry Tortugas to the St. Lucie Inlet. It’s the only coral reef system in the continental United States and is home to over forty species of reef-building corals that provide shelter, food and breeding sites for millions of plants and animals.
Florida’s Coral Reef is an incredible natural resource that protects our coastline and supports the economy, providing opportunities for recreation, education and medical research.
Experience the Reef
See the Coral City Camera live from the Biscayne Bay Aquatic Preserve brought to you by Coral Morphologic or dive in and explore Florida’s Coral Reef in 360°
The future of Florida’s Coral Reef is being threatened
Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, pollution, warming ocean temperatures, ocean acidification and many other threats contribute to reef degradation.

Without continued bold and aggressive action, we may lose critical functions and benefits of the reefs


But there is hope
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection and its partners are working daily to support the reefs’ natural recovery processes through the large-scale cultivation, outplanting, and monitoring of genetically diverse, reef-building corals.