Eco Tour
Coral Restoration St Barth
Coral Restoration St Barth is a marine conservation in St Barths.
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Association founded 2014 by Didier Laplace, a former commercial fisherman who turned to conservation after a near-fatal fishing accident in 2011. Runs an underwater coral nursery, replants fragments onto reserve reefs prioritising threatened staghorn/elkhorn coral, installs tidal bins for marine debris. Mission Blue named Saint-Barthelemy a HOPE SPOT in May 2022 in recognition, with Laplace as Champion.
Directly restorative rather than merely non-damaging, locally founded and led, internationally recognised.
Listing details
- Full Address
- Nursery at Saline; outplanting at Gros Ilet inside the reserve, St Barths
- Name
- Coral Restoration St Barth
- Sources (internal, verification URLs)
- https://missionblue.org/2022/05/former-local-fisherman-turned-conservationist-named-champion-of-saint-barthelemy-hope-spot/
- Verified
- hand-verified research, Jul 2026
- Excerpt
- Association founded 2014 by Didier Laplace, a former commercial fisherman who turned to conservation after a near-fatal fishing accident in 2011. Runs an underwater coral nursery, replants fragments o
- About
- Association founded 2014 by Didier Laplace, a former commercial fisherman who turned to conservation after a near-fatal fishing accident in 2011. Runs an underwater coral nursery, replants fragments onto reserve reefs prioritising threatened staghorn/elkhorn coral, installs tidal bins for marine debris. Mission Blue named Saint-Barthelemy a HOPE SPOT in May 2022 in recognition, with Laplace as Champion.
Directly restorative rather than merely non-damaging, locally founded and led, internationally recognised. - Why it is eco / at the source
- Directly restorative rather than merely non-damaging, locally founded and led, internationally recognised.
- Country
- Saint Barthélemy
- Area / Neighbourhood
- Nursery at Saline; outplanting at Gros Ilet inside the reserve
- Type
- Marine Conservation
- Season (open months)
- Year-round; a nursery cohort takes roughly six to nine months before outplanting
- Ethics
- No wildlife interaction beyond coral husbandry. IMPORTANT ACCESS FINDING: could NOT verify a public drop-in coral dive. The one clearly documented paid route is the guest programme at Le Barthelemy Hotel & Spa, where the fee goes to the association. Mission Blue reports Laplace does not run his own dive centre but partners with local dive clubs; the association's public-facing participation is the shoreline debris collection points. Contact coralprojectstbarth@gmail.com or 0690 41 96 66.
- Free to visit
- No
- Brand image
- Last checked
- 2026-07-22