Marine Conservation Cambodia is pioneering with the community of Koh Rong Samleom a number of different reef rehabilitation substrates and supports. This ranges from the very culturally friendly and Angkor inspired Nagas and bas reliefs to the more traditional reef-ball inspired structures. We are developing the making of these cement substrates and hope to keep a good number of villagers employed at the task of moulding and mastering reef breeding techniques to produce more reef protections and fish habitats. Some of of our earliest trials were placed at the end of 2007.

Our most successful habitat has been right outside of our project base on koh Rong Samloem, The bay by the village on Koh Rong Samloem had its marine environment desimated by illegal vietnamese fishermen that returned every year to use hooker systems (air pumped through a pipe) to allow them to collect pretty much everything that resided within the bay and the surrounding areas. We decided to start to rebuild this habitat. The Habitat we have created consists of a few concrete structures which immediatly became home to a host of crabs and cuttlefish, some old nets collected on clean ups which after two days were covered with Cuttlefish eggs. The Seagrass has been replanted and live Pen shells have been replaced. The area has become a vibrant habitat again in only a few months

On The Second day of the creation of our house reef artificial habitat cuttlefish layed eggs under our concreate structures.

On the Third day of the creation of our house reef artificial habitat we had two visiting seahorses.

Our Artificial Reef has also taken well, we have been collecting damaged coral from areas of dynamite and anchor damage and placing it around a small concrete base, the corals that would have died are now living happily and providing a new habitat for the visiting reef inhabitants