All Back in 2021, Robin Mazor and Tom Woods of Hawai'i nonprofit organization 'Reef Guardians,' were at Anini Beach on a routine snorkel to monitor reef activity and fish population when they discovered something unusual. 

"I was highly concerned," Mazor said. "We immediately began to take pictures."

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All is not well in the waters off 'Anini Beach on the North Shore of Kaua'i, where a three-year-old mystery with calamitous potential continues to baffle those tasked with conserving the area ecosystem. Reef Guardians--an ocean conservation nonprofit based on Kaua'i and in Santa Barbara, California-routinely monitors coral reefs across the Garden Isle. 

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In the summer of 2021, Robin Mazor and Tom Woods with the non-profit organization Reef Guardians Hawaiʻi contacted the Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR) to let them know that while snorkeling in the lagoon at ʻAnini (Wanini) beach on Kauaʻi, they saw some corals that were unfamiliar to them and appeared to have been placed onto the reef. ​

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A rare, endangered hawksbill sea turtle was discovered during a reef monitoring session in Kauai's north shore waters by Executive Director Robin Mazor. Reef Guardians Hawaii partnered with Hawaiian Hawksbill Conservation to photo-identify the turtle. The collected data helps increase understanding of hawksbill behavior and population dynamics to further conservation efforts.

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RGH Founder, Harry Rabin, was invited to join the Cousteau Team and Whale Sanctuary Project to head first to Moscow, for diplomatic meetings, and then on to Vladivostok and the infamous Srednyaya Bay in an effort to free 10 Orca and 87 Belugas held in the so-called Whale Jail. All 10 Orca and 87 Beluga have been returned to their home in the Sea of Okhotsk!

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Reef Guardians (RGH) has teamed up with California State Lands Commission, Interact, and Hillary Hauser, Executive director of world-renowned Heal the Ocean to locate leaking offshore abandoned oil well heads in Santa Barbara County.

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Aggressive monitoring is the goal here and utilizing the power of intelligent drones that can capture images fly repetitive headings on land and in the sea are key components to monitoring a reefs health.
We are heading to Florida end of Feb. 2020 to continue discussions with FIU and their interest to participate in our research!

The McCauley lab, lead by Dr. Doug McCauley at UCSB's Marine Science Institute, will be using select  RGH footage from a 3 year library collected on Great White shark juveniles. The Great White Shark studies were both commissioned and conducted by Reef Guardians along with CSU Long Beach Shark Lab and filmed by On the Wave Productions. Over 15 of these sharks were tagged and tracked over the past 2 years. The videos we are providing to the McCauley Lab are helping to create algorithms, mathmatical models, for the software that will eventually determine and track in real time great white and other sharks in recreational areas such as local beaches where we humans share the ocean with all creatures that dwell within it!