"Adopt a Coral" - are they scams??

[ninjamyst]

Lately, I been seeing a lot of ads for Coral Gardners to "adopt a coral". You give them money, they say they planted a coral in your name, and send you photos of it.

A quick Google search shows other sites such as Coral Planters and Reef Restoration.

Are some of these scams?? How do we know?

 

[Baldyreef]

Lately, I been seeing a lot of ads for Coral Gardners to "adopt a coral". You give them money, they say they planted a coral in your name, and send you photos of it.

A quick Google search shows other sites such as Coral Planters and Reef Restoration.

Are some of these scams?? How do we know?

like other orginizations that do this like "adopt a dolphin" its a way of money to fund restoration projects in this case growing frags and restoring reefs, i dont see why they wouldnt do it but i can imagine that they may assign the same coral to multiple people, paying to "adopt" a coral with them is pretty much just paying them to help with reef restoration and the costs of operating these projects