[Coral-List] Could foreign coral save dying reefs?

Tue Jan 16 17:18:10 UTC 2024

All these desperate projects that favor contracts for
restoration practitioners, avoid addressing URGENTLY the causes. The point
about investing all the money in restoration by allowing it to
continue business as usual with already approved EIA will leave without
attention to the root causes. It will not give success either for
the conservation of corals of the foreign countries or the countries that
have already allowed the degradation of their coral reefs.

Stop unsustainable development (Including climate change causes) in coral
reef areas to avoid the local and global threats. I agree with Steven, it
is becoming increasingly obvious that it is the last best chance we have to
save coral reefs. I also agree with the message of Отправлено с помощью
защищённой почты, "understanding the causes and impacts of the coral
diseases is vital for developing effective management strategies. It is
imperative that governments, organizations, and individuals collaborate to
protect coral reef ecosystems, ensuring their resilience in the face of
disease outbreaks and other environmental challenges. Only through
concerted efforts can we safeguard these invaluable ecosystems for future
generations".

All the best,
Nohora Galvis
International Coral Reef Observatory, ICRO
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El mar, 16 ene 2024 a las 11:07, Steve Mussman via Coral-List (<
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>) escribió:

>
> Hi Doug,
>
> Can foreign corals save a dying reef?
>
> I would suggest that the simple answer to that question is an emphatic
> “NO”.
>
> One of the scientists in the Nature article is quoted as lamenting “How
> far do you go? When do we just give up?” she says. “I don’t know.”
>
> All this angst leads me to pose a responsive question.
>
> When will the coral sciences stop focusing on trying to find or develop
> corals that can survive in increasingly adverse conditions and finally
> realize that the only real solution is to address causation?
>
> Stop wringing your hands and focus on what we all know are the central
> issues at play; water quality, over-fishing and climate change.
>
> Such an approach might not create as many exciting opportunities to
> experiment with the manipulation the natural world, but it is becoming
> increasingly obvious that it is the last best chance we have to save it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve Mussman
>
> Sent from EarthLink Mobile mail
>
> On 1/15/24, 8:16 PM, Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> "Scientists are considering a desperate attempt to use non-native coral to
>
> restore long-struggling reefs in the Caribbean that were devastated by last
>
> year’s heatwave. It’s a controversial proposal
>
> that
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> comes after efforts to rescue reefs with native corals have failed. Certain
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> Indo-Pacific coral species easily colonize reefs, and might be able to
>
> survive pollution, heat extremes and diseases. But they could also disturb
>
> the local ecology in unpredictable ways. “It’s an 11th-hour solution,” says
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> coral geneticist Mikhail Matz, who presented the idea at a conference. “And
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> it is now 11:45.”" Nature Briefing
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> Radical idea sparks debate
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> https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00102-y
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> open-access
>
> Cheers, Doug
>
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> Pacific Islands Regional Office
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> Honolulu
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> and:
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> Coral Reef Consulting
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> PO Box 997390
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> Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298 USA
>
> Costanza, R. 2023. To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth.
>
> Nature 624: 519-521. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04029-8
>
> Fossil fuel air pollution kills 5 million people world-wide per year
>
>
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/research-shows-disturbing-between-millions-200000257.html
>
> World's richest 1% emit as much as 5 billion people
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> https://makerichpolluterspay.org/climate-equality-report/
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> Huge expansion of fossil fuels planned, will be very destructive
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/08/insanity-petrostates-planning-huge-expansion-of-fossil-fuels-says-un-report
>
> "without policy changes, the world will heat up enough by the end of the
>
> century that more than 2 billion people will live in life-threatening hot
>
> climates" Will you be in that area???
>
>
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-sounding-alarm-dangerous-problem-123000792.html
>
> World subsidies for fossil fuels reached an all-time high of over $1
>
> TRILLION in 2022, the last year for which data is available. The subsidies
>
> MUST end.
>
>
> https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/fossil-fuel-subsidies-must-end/
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