Coral Restoration’s Wake Up Call
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Photo: Coral nursery at Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary – August 9, 2014. Photo credit: Mitchell Tartt / NOAA – Public domain. Article by Chris D’Angelo. HuffPost – September 2, 2024.
Rebuilding degraded coral reefs started as a noble endeavor, but now some coral scientists are confronting a dark reality.
FLORIDA KEYS — Until last summer, Pickles Reef was seen as a bright spot in the field of coral restoration. The Coral Restoration Foundation, one of the largest reef restoration organizations in the world, had spent the better part of two decades working to breathe new life into this degraded site, outplanting tens of thousands of small colonies of coral, mostly fast-growing elkhorn and staghorn. […]
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