[Coral-List] a couple of restoration projects, short videos on BBC

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Tue Oct 26 10:21:32 UTC 2021


Sorry, I forgot to say that BBC required me to register before I could see
these videos.
Cheers, Doug

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 11:10 PM Douglas Fenner <
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com> wrote:

> A short video of a project in Indonesia that attaches corals to steel
> "stars" that are bent so the corals are held above the bottom.  They are
> restoring reef, check out how they have restored as much as 40,000 m2 of
> reef, and the video of what it looks like when the corals have grown.  They
> get help from the Nature Conservancy and have a corporate sponsor.  It is
> super unusual for a restoration project to restore that much area.
>
> https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-56985594
>
> A very short video of attaching corals to lego blocks and suspending them
> in water so they will grow.  In Singapore.  Sounds like it was all in
> aquaria, they are not ready to plant them out on the reef yet.
>
> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-58784313
>


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