Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Photo of the Day- Coral Incubator


"Coral Incubator Several species of coral are grown on iron pipes in tanks at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida. Biologists are trying to identify strains that grow well in the Florida Keys and re-establish them offshore"

We have lost 25 percent of the world’s corals in the last 25 years,” David E. Vaughan, director of the Center for Coral Reef Research at Mote, said in an interview, adding that 25 percent more are expected to die in the next decade or two. “Sometimes we sound like doomsday sayers,” Dr. Vaughan said, “but those are the facts.”
- NYT, 'Coral Is Dying. Can It Be Reborn?'

See also US Coral Reef Task Force and
Lotus Reef Restoration Project, Coral Transplanting, Coral Spawning.

Does anyone know of any other projects on coral reefs restoration?

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