[Coral-List] Last 3 days to apply for upcoming - REEF BUILDING WORKSHOP

[Risk, Michael]

   Igor:

   Any time I hear someone calling for unity of voces, my automatic
   translator kicks in and says "agree with ME."

   I do not see "attacks" (and whatever they are, they are not
   unprecedented)-I see legitimate questions raised by experienced
   researchers. Restoration specialists would be well advised to respond
   to those concerns.

   Sure, we are facing a dire situation. Your focus is on climate
   change-but the data clearly show that we have lost far more corals from
   local stresses than we have (so far!) to climate change. Reef
   restoration efforts that fail to put WQ front and centre are ignoring
   decades of work.

   As to whether restoration efforts will ultimately prove to be futile:
   my guess is, yeah, a waste of time. I see no signs of bending of any
   critical trajectories.

   Same old Mike
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   Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Last 3 days to apply for upcoming - REEF
   BUILDING WORKSHOP

   Hi all
   I am with Austin and Franziska... the challenges facing coral
   restoration
   scientists and practitioners as a result of the incessant and
   increasing
   attacks on reef restoration are unprecedented in the history of coral
   reef
   scientific community. Several reef scientists continue to assume that
   to
   replant the entire reef, or offer a quick fix solution that waters down
   the
   need for action on climate change.  Indeed, there are those who promote
   that approach still. But this is rubbishing all coral restoration in
   highly
   visible public tweets, and it keeps coming to Coral List through
   various
   researchers as they see quick fix positions portrayed in the media. To
   have
   a fractured and disunited coral reef community is not such a good thing
   in
   this time of crisis. What we need is a unity of vision to raise our
   voice
   more loudly, and make us more effective in our collective work to
   disseminate and raise awareness about the importance of our cause, as
   far
   as we hope for coral reefs into sustainable management. We are in the
   leading edge in the war against the impacts of climate change to keep
   coral
   species and genotypes alive in the face of mass die offs.  And we are
   in
   the same boat but we don't have the luxury of waiting for all problems
   to
   be solved, so let's work together along parallel tracks!
   Best,
   Igor Pessoa
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