“You can see the reefs turning white—you can see it!” exclaims Ashton Williams, a reef manager from Antigua. “So how do we go about dealing with that?”

That’s where The Nature Conservancy comes in.

The Conservancy and partners, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are leading workshops for reef managers around the world about the impacts of climate change on reefs and what strategies they can take to address issues like bleaching.

“We are trying to empower reef managers to be able to reduce the impacts of climate change because often, they feel there is nothing they can do,” says Stephanie Wear, a scientist with the Conservancy’s Marine Team.

At the heart of these trainings is education and understanding about reef resilience, a concept pioneered by Nature Conservancy scientists that just might help save some of the world’s healthiest reefs.

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