Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef has evolved into a key body of mobilization and cooperation of conservation action for the Great Barrier Reef. It has raised the profile of the GBR, empowering people with knowledge, experience, and ability to protect and enjoy the Reef, driving and communicating positive action with tangible in protecting the area which is under significant pressure.

The CI Colombia program began with the Eastern Tropical Pacific Seascape (ETPS) initiative, created in 2005, with the aim of generating voluntary cooperation between Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador, to strengthen the management of marine protected areas of the territorial seas. This includes management and conservation areas for strategic species, and offering economic alternatives to local communities, to ensure the sustainability of marine-coastal resources and local communities. Coral reef rehabilitation and recovery of fish stocks are part of their programme.

Conservation Diver supports the conservation of marine resources through various training programs in coral reef research, restoration, and protection. Their slogan is "Training the next generation of marine conservationists". They have training centres in Thailand, Nicaragua, Indonesia and the Azores, Portugal, with several new centres due to open shortly (2022), including in Madagascar and Hawaii.

Since 1986 Coral Cay Conservation has worked in 14 countries, on over 17 projects, and are internationally awarded for their achievements in environmental conservation. They have a field base in Egypt. Operating in Asia, Central America, and Africa, one of their many initiatives was the Southern Leyte Coral Reef Conservation Project in Philippines (2002-2020). They facilitate volunteer work on projects globally.

The Coral Gardeners, based in Mo’orea in French Polynesia, aims to “change the world, one coral reef at a time”, via raising awareness and funds for reef restoration projects, using social media, merchandise and their Adopt a Super Coral programme. Their restoration work involves identifying super corals and growing super coral fragments until they are mature enough to be transplanted back onto the reef, with more than 15,000 corals have been replanted already. They are innovating new techniques using AI and smart sensors to observe and monitor the coral nurseries in real-time.

Coral Guardian is a French NGO which aims to protect coral reef ecosystems by engaging local communities and raising awareness among the general public. They have been working off Hatamin Island in Indonesia since 2015, and since late 2020, in Spain along with the nonprofit Coral Soul on the Deep CORE project to protect and restore coral ecosystems off the coast of Punta de la Mona (western Mediterranean). They operate an 'Adopt a Coral' scheme thus enabling the public to participate in the important work of protecting coral reefs.

Coral Heroes is a France-based organisation dedicated to the preservation of coral reefs, the restoration of marine ecosystems and the safeguarding of coastal communities that depend on it. It creates funding links between local NGOs already active in the field and people wishing to participate in/contribute to the safeguarding of our marine ecosystems. Two projects in South East Asia show the work that can be achieved from such linking, one being on Tioman Island in Malaysia where the Reef Check Malaysia team have created coral nurseries from glass bottles, addressing both the need for coral restoration and the problem of glass recycling on the island, and engaging locals in the process. On Mantanani island too coral restoration is underway, as well as a plastic recovery programme.

Coral Mission Foundation builds coral nurseries where coral fragments can grow and thrive in a protected environment in the Maldives. They obtain their coral fragments from various locations in the Maldives, where reef damage from snorkelers, divers, and construction work is common. Their current undertaking is relocating an entire coral reef near the Maamigili Island airport, where an extension to the runway will destroy a nearby reef. Coral Mission have been granted permission to collect the area’s corals and relocate them to the nearby island of Dhigurah.

The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) is committed to saving the world’s coral reefs. They work at local, regional, and global levels to keep coral reefs healthy, so they can adapt to climate change and survive for generations to come. As one of the largest global NGOs focused exclusively on protecting coral reefs, CORAL has used cutting-edge science and community engagement for nearly 30 years to reduce direct threats to reefs and to promote scalable and effective solutions for their protection. Learn more at coral.org or make a donation to help keep coral reefs healthy at coral.org/donate.

Coral Reef Care (CRC) focuses on the conservation and protection of marine ecosystems, in particular coral reefs, by initiating and organising reef conservation projects and creating public awareness on the importance of coral reefs. This involves, amongst others, the restoration of damaged reefs, removal of lost fishing nets on coral reefs, campaigns to reduce plastic waste, creation of artificial reefs, creation of No Take Zones and the protection of specific marine species. Taking the approach that effective conservation projects must involve local communities, they generate jobs for local communities in the conservation business.  One of Coral Reef Care’s main goals is to set up more MPAs (Marine Protected Areas). They have projects in several places Asia and Africa, including Bali, Indonesia, Maziwe Island in Tanzania, and Kinuni near Vipingo in Kenya. . In addition, they have a initiated a project which focuses on shark and ray protection, specifically in South and Mid Kenya and carried out with Cordio East Africa in Mombasa. To their current target groups, i.e. school kids and fishermen, they explain the importance of these magnificent species, their crucial role in the ecosystem, threats to their existence, and the solutions to protect them.

An operational program under ICRI (International Coral Reef Initiative), CORDIO is a collaborative program involving researchers in 11 countries in the central and western Indian Ocean. CORDIO was created in 1999 to assess the widespread degradation of the coral reefs throughout the region. Gradually much of the research is focusing on mitigation of damage to reefs and on alternative livelihoods for people dependant on reefs that are being degraded due to climate change and other stress factors. The project is focused on research and monitoring of coral reefs of the Indian Ocean, and implements about 45 projects in 11 Indian Ocean countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Comores, Reunion, Maldives, Sri Lanka, India). About 50 scientists at local institutions in these countries carry out the projects.

Coral Reef Initiative for the South Pacific (CRISP) is a French inter-ministerial project founded in 2002. Its aims focus on developing a vision for the future for coral reef eco-systems and the communities that depend on them within the French overseas territories and Pacific Island developing countries. The project aims to develop a vision for the future of these unique eco-systems and the communities that depend on them and to introduce strategies and projects to conserve their biodiversity, while developing the economic and environmental services that they provide both locally and globally. CRISP comprises some 50 projects in 17 Pacific Island countries.