{"id":1909,"date":"2025-05-18T14:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T19:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2025-05-19T01:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:57:05","slug":"renovacion-del-memorando-de-entendimiento-entre-secore-y-ecomares-para-restauracion-de-arrecifes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/renovacion-del-memorando-de-entendimiento-entre-secore-y-ecomares-para-restauracion-de-arrecifes\/","title":{"rendered":"Renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding SECORE-ECOMARES"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1909\" class=\"elementor elementor-1909\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2b6752b2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2b6752b2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5e47c8bb\" data-id=\"5e47c8bb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c9466f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7c9466f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- wp:gallery {\"linkTo\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\"><!-- wp:image {\"id\":1911,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image --><!-- wp:image {\"id\":1912,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image --><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:gallery --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>With the purpose of renewing and extending the current <strong>Memorandum of Understanding<\/strong> between SECORE International and the ECOMARES Foundation (2021\u20132025), both parties, together with the directors of the coral larval rearing laboratories at the University of Magdalena and the Blue Indigo Foundation, met from May 13 to 15 at the University of Magdalena in Santa Marta, Colombia. The main objective of the meeting was to strengthen collaboration on the development of <strong>propagaci\u00f3n larval de corales<\/strong> <strong>large-scale coral larval propagation techniques<\/strong>within the framework of reef restoration in the Colombian Caribbean.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>On the morning of May 13, representatives from SECORE, ECOMARES, the University of Magdalena, and the Blue Indigo Foundation shared experiences, progress, challenges, and future projections related to the breeding and managing sexually derived coral recruits. As part of this exchange, key researchers and partners in coral reef restoration in the Magdalena region were invited, including Professors <strong>Adolfo Sanju\u00e1n<\/strong> (Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano) and <strong>Sven Zea<\/strong> (National University of Colombia), as well as professionals from <strong>Tayrona National Natural Park (PNN Tayrona)<\/strong> and <strong>INVEMAR<\/strong>, who gained first-hand insight into both national and international advances in sexual coral reproduction for ecological restoration purposes.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The meeting included a visit to a reef area within Tayrona National Natural Park (PNN Tayrona), where participants assessed the health of these ecosystems, which are considered unique and of great ecological value in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>As a result of the mutual interest in continuing this collaboration, a new <strong>Memorandum of Understanding was signed, valid until 2030.<\/strong>As with the previous agreement, each laboratory will continue working in partnership <strong>with various local organizations<\/strong> committed to the conservation of Colombia\u2019s reefs.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d0dd9ec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d0dd9ec\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fdbfdbf\" data-id=\"fdbfdbf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9cad73b elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"9cad73b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"342\" src=\"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MoU-1024x342.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1918\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MoU-1024x342.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ecomares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MoU-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ecomares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MoU-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ecomares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MoU-1536x513.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ecomares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MoU-2048x684.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ecomares.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MoU-18x6.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From May 13 to 15, 2025, SECORE International, the ECOMARES Foundation, and strategic partners met at the University of Magdalena to strengthen collaboration on coral sexual reproduction techniques for reef restoration in the Colombian Caribbean. The meeting concluded with signing a new Memorandum of Understanding, valid until 2030.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecomares.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}