[Coral-List] Last 3 days to apply for upcoming - REEF BUILDING WORKSHOP (Hector Reyes Bonilla)

[Philip Karp]

Thanks for sharing Hector.  However, the example you provide looks to me to be an example of poor management rather than evidence of the lack of efficacy of reef restoration efforts.  I'm all for a healthy debate on this topic (although I agree with Austin and Franziska that blanket condemnation of reef restoration efforts is not helpful and may in fact be counterproductive if it spills over into the mainstream media), but let's please base this on broad evidence rather than anecdotal examples.  



Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 10:22:14 -0600
From: H?ctor Reyes Bonilla <hreyes at uabcs.mx>
To: "Risk, Michael" <riskmj at mcmaster.ca>
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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