Photo Exhibition – Red Sea Corals
Photo Exhibition “Red Sea Corals – bridging science and diplomacy in favor of the reefs of hope”
From 6 August to 2 September 2024, Quai Wilson
From the Gulf of Tadjourah to the Seven Brothers archipelago in the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to dive at the heart of the scientific missions and educational workshops carried out in Djibouti in 2022 and 2023 by the Transnational Red Sea Center and its Djiboutian and Sudanese partners. Taken under water, on board the expedition boat or on land, the 90 photos highlight the spirit and field work of a unique Swiss initiative bridging science and diplomacy to promote a regional approach to the preservation of coral reefs that have demonstrated an exceptional resistance to climate change. These “Reefs of Hope” in the Red Sea are a de facto unique opportunity for at least one major coral ecosystem to survive for future generations, in a context where corals are disappearing at a dramatic rate elsewhere in the world due to global warming. In this way, the exhibition bears witness to a formidable human adventure, at the crossroads of the scientific, environmental, economic and geopolitical challenges of our time.
Public exhibition organized in collaboration with the Transnational Red Sea Center of the EPFL with the support of the City of Geneva, the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the H. Dudley Wright Foundation.
