Coral farming at Nausicaa

Since 2005, Nausicaa has been participating in the CORALZOO  programme, which brings together several aquariums and European research centres on an ambitious project to improve coral farming techniques in aquariums... 

The CORALZOO programme

The aim of the programme is to enable as many zoos and marine parks as possible to display live corals in their aquariums, but without having to take coral from the wild, where corals are in real danger. Since 1998 and the opening of its Tropical Lagoon Village and giant aquariums, Nausicaa has been one of the largest coral farmers in Europe. This enables the Centre to create increasingly striking and realistic live displays, as well as exchange living creatures with a large number of aquariums around the world.