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Coral Reef Rehabilitation Project deploys 240 corals near Ngerchong Island. Credit - www.islandtimes.org
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Since 2018, the Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) has been partnering with the Koror State Government (KSG) and Palau Visitors Authority (PVA) on a coral rehabilitation project. On June 15 and 16, PICRC Aquarist, McGee Mereb and Eveline van der Steeg, a Ph.D. candidate from the CoralAsssist Lab from Newcastle University, joined the Koror State Rangers to plant corals at Ngerchong Inside. They outplanted 240 substrates with coral recruits, in hopes to increase coral cover at the site.

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