TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Delta Electronics has joined forces with primatologist Jane Goodall to promote coral reef restoration and marine conservation.
Delta Electronics Foundation, the Jane Goodall Institute, and Taiwan’s National Museum of Marine Science and Technology announced the initiative on Friday in Keelung, per CNA. The effort includes a children’s picture book, “Coral: The Forests of the Ocean,” to be released under Goodall’s global Roots & Shoots program, per Commercial Times.
Cheng Tsung-hua (鄭崇華), Delta’s founder, called Goodall a lifelong inspiration and welcomed her support for Delta’s efforts in ocean sustainability. Goodall praised the resilience of nature and said damaged coral reefs can be revived with concerted action.
Delta has been restoring coral along Taiwan’s northeast coast since 2021 and pledged NT$30 million (US$1 million) in 2023 to create Chaojing Coral Conservation Center. The facility, co-developed with the marine museum, is the first in Asia to use zero-carbon tech to revive coral at scale.
Delta stressed the ecological value of coral reefs, which cover less than 0.1% of the ocean floor yet support more than 25% of all marine life. However, reef health has plummeted – from 60% global coverage in the 1960s to just 19% by 2018 – as climate-driven marine heatwaves accelerate coral bleaching.
Delta is also extending its conservation model internationally. In Singapore, the company joined the “Plant-A-Coral, Seed-A-Reef” initiative last year, helping equip a coral restoration lab on St. John’s Island to grow over 10,000 coral colonies annually.
