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

[Héctor Reyes Bonilla]

saludos a todos.

I completely agree with Mike Risk in the sense that it is dangerous to ask
for a common position among scientists in a subject that still produces so
much discussion, and especially when many restoration efforts have never
ever demonstrated their usefulness despite important expenditures. The
following two links clearly demonstrate this (I hope people can understand
Spanish; basically, the Mexican government spent > 6 million pesos - over
half a million dollars of 2007-2010- to sink over 9,000 concrete
modules along the coast of Yucatan; in the end they just placed 2,700
modules, and the money disappeared).

http://www.teorema.com.mx/biodiversidad/ecosistemas/avanza-programa-de-arrecifes-artificiales-en-yucatan/

https://www.sinembargo.mx/07-10-2012/390661

The worst: so far, no restored reefs or fishery results whatsoever.

I hope that results in the current ICRS will help us to advance in this
line.

Hector Reyes

El dom, 18 jul 2021 a las 0:26, Risk, Michael via Coral-List (<
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>) escribió:

>    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
>      __________________________________________________________________
>
>    From: Coral-List <coral-list-bounces at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> on behalf of
>    Igor Pessoa via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
>    Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 6:35 PM
>    To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
>    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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>
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