The teachers in the BREEF 4 workshop built their own Reef Ball on San Salvador. By getting their hands dirty and putting their back into it, BREEF workshop teachers are making an investment in the ocean. So many of the ways that humans can help the marine environment are by not doing something: not fishing undersized grouper, not spearing on scuba, not throwing an anchor on the reef, not touching corals with hands or fins, not taking juvenile conchs, not taking crawfish with eggs (berries). But it feels good to do something active to help the fish. Building a reef ball is one of the ways to connect teachers and their students to their role in protecting those good things in the sea that no one wants to see disappear.
