[Coral-List] 82 Corals Status Review under the US Endangered Species Act

[Eugene Shinn]

Thank you Enersto, I observed it here as well but Billy has the best 
data on the event. Gene


At 12:02 PM -0400 6/26/12, Ernesto Weil wrote:
>Here in Puerto Rico, Millepora populations went down significantly after two
>significant bleaching events, the 2005
>being the most detrimental, which also affected populations in Grenada,
>Cayman, V. Islands, and many other north and eastern Caribbean localities.
>Both M. alcicornis and M. complanata suffered high mortality in moost reefs
>of La Parguera, mostly in their preferred shallow habitats. One particular
>species, M. squarrosa, the box fire coral, completely disappeared from
>several fringing reefs. M. alcicornis and M. complanata, and the crustose
>ecomorph that overgrows and kills octocorals (whatever that is) are slowly
>coming back. However, after 6 years of surveys, I have only seen one tiny
>colony of M. squarrosa recently.
>
>EW  
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
>[mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Szmant, Alina
>Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 5:59 PM
>To: Douglas Fenner; Eugene Shinn; coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
>Subject: Re: [Coral-List] 82 Corals Status Review under the US Endangered
>Species Act
>
>Millepora complanata and M. alcicornis are doing exceeding well down here in
>Curacao...healthy, nice color and everywhere.  Maybe just get permission to
>reintroduce it to rest of Caribbean from propagules.  But first you need to
>fix whatever problem led to their demise in the first place.  If it's global
>warming, fat chance!
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
>[mailto:coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov] On Behalf Of Douglas Fenner
>Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 5:11 PM
>To: Eugene Shinn; coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
>Subject: Re: [Coral-List] 82 Corals Status Review under the US Endangered
>Species Act
>
>Gene,
>     I've been told that Millepora grows like a weed in aquaria, and that if
>people had realized the problem, they could have been grown in aquaria and
>the species saved.  Zoos do that sort of thing for vertebrates all the
>time.  I remember reading the story of the Phoenix, Arizona, zoo, which
>gathered the last half dozen or so Arabian Oryx left in the entire world,
>and started a captive breeding program.  They brought them back from the
>brink of extinction by producing many calves.  Likewise, Whooping Cranes
>have also been brought back from the brink of extinction by captive breeding
>programs.  Wikipedia has these two stories. There are lots more success
>stories.   I've read that no species that has been declared under the US
>Endangered Species Act has gone extinct, but one of the papers I had in my
>references in my earlier message documented that hundreds have gone extinct
>while waiting for government to make a decision on whether to list  them. 
>The Endangered Species Act makes a difference.  It certainly isn't perfect. 
>Name anything that is.  The alternative is grim, as extinction is forever.  
>    Cheers,  Doug
>
>
>
>________________________________
>  From: Eugene Shinn <eshinn at marine.usf.edu>
>To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
>Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:55 AM
>Subject: [Coral-List] 82 Corals Status Review under the US Endangered
>Species Act
>
>Thanks Doug, I wonder if those Millipora species had been listed back in the
>1980s would they be living today? Gene
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