Restoring Florida's Dying Coral Reefs | Refurbished | Insider 

Despite the ongoing threat to coral reefs from climate change and ocean acidification there is still hope, and there is every need to continue to work to restore damaged coral reef ecosystems. Despite warming waters and increasing ocean acidification, the corals we are outplanting are thriving. Many of our older outplants are now spawning, which demonstrates that they are healthy- in order for corals to spawn, they must have energy available to do so. This success is likely due to a few main factors: 1) Many of the local stressors which contributed to the decline in these coral populations have now been abated 2) It is likely that the wild coral genotypes that provided the initial parent stock for our operations are hardy, having withstood decades of multiple stressors. Their persistence in the wild until a decade ago indicates that these genotypes are resilient and probably capable of eventually adapting to increasingly dynamic environmental conditions. 3) Diverse ecosystems are resilient to stressors. By ensuring that we are working to support the reefs’ natural diversity, we are giving coral reefs a better chance of adapting to changing environmental conditions. Saving coral reefs requires action at multiple levels. While organizations work to curb carbon emissions, it is essential that we work to maintain viable wild coral populations that will have a chance to recover once we mitigate the effects of climate change, including ocean acidification.

@@CoralRestorationFoundation Interesting. Thanks for responding! Glad it seems to be having a sustained impact.

Would old iron boats or iron barges be a benefit to growing corral in and placing them in desired places around the Keys

The Pentagon is too busy sending billions of our taxpayer money over to Ukraine

we probably nearly killed that too :)

She said in the video that even there it's on decline

Sounds like Australia needs to get on the ball and start restoring their dying coral reefs too, instead of sitting back and being passive as they watch it further decline!

@@mividalocastudio9366You should google what they’re doing in Australia. Nobody’s sitting back and watching the reefs die. Where did you get that from?

@@mividalocastudio9366they’re doing a better job than America

Just fiine actually, record ocean temps however have thoroughly destroyed the entire project.

We work wiith 1,305 putative coral genotypes across 20 species! Right now we have the capacity to return populations of staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) elkhorn (Acropora palmata) and two species of boulder coral (Orbicella faveolata and Obricella annularis). Staghorn and elkhorn are listed on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species as “Critically Endangered”, one step away from “Extinct in the Wild”. They are also both listed as threatened under the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA). In future years we will continue to raise and return diverse populations of corals to the wild. We value the importance of biodiversity because we know diverse ecosystems are resilient to stressors. By ensuring that we are working to support the reefs’ natural diversity, we are giving coral reefs a better chance of adapting to changing environmental conditions.

@@CoralRestorationFoundation Talk about thorough replies. Thanks! It's either way interesting to read about.

And you wasted it!!

Very regrettably, you're absolutely correct.