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January 03, 2020
This coral repository is long overdue. Thank you for spearheading. A few questions:
1) how is it being funded? A global coral tax should be imposed on every purchase and sale of coral, even captive propagated frags. It could be a nominal fee of 0.25$. This would add up! 100% of profits redistributed to coral protection and recovery efforts.
2) will these collections be a source of species for reef recovery if they are catalogued and kept separate based on point of origin? Or is this just acting as a living museum of sorts?
3) while this is necessary, more pressure is needed to establish marine protected areas that encompass coral reefs. See the Atoll islands and Palau as beacons of successful reef conservation.
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October 19, 2020
We have created gene bank nurseries in our Fiji, Kiribati, and Samoa sites, focused on bleaching resistant corals. We collect corals from known stressed hot-pocket reef areas and bring the samples to cooler water nurseries. We aim to collect ten genotypes of each of the Acropora corals as they are the most vulnerable to extinction in the coming decades. Each coral is trimmed annually in the nurseries to prevent spawning and to maximize growth, with the fragments out-planted to create bleaching resistant patches on the reef, where the corals also become effective spawning aggregations and help reefs recover after bleaching. https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/emergency-response-to-massive-coral-bleaching/