VIDEO: Polo Reef’s Exclusive Florida Coral Rescue Center Program
Join Andrew Sandler and Rachid Stoury as they travel to Florida and join Justin Zimmerman, SeaWorld supervisor for the Florida Coral Rescue Center (FCRC). Take an exclusive, VIP tour showcasing efforts to create a genetic repository and propagate corals to reestablish some of Florida’s most endangered corals, some of which Zimmerman classifies as effectively “functionally extinct.”
LEGO to the Reef Restoration Rescue
Dr. Jani Tanzil holds up one of the PVC pipes on which the Lego-mounted corals are suspended with nylon ties.
Sometimes the solution to a problem is genuinely child’s play—you just have to find it. Two marine biologists in Singapore were faced with the task of attaching…
VIDEO: Coral Vita Opens New Coral Restoration Farm
The new for-profit land-based coral restoration farm on Grand Bahama leverages microfragmentation techniques to grow corals 25-50 times faster than the wild.
Coral Outplanting Effort Underway in Florida
The Florida Aquarium announces the outplanting of over 3000 genetically distinct corals as part of ongoing reef restoration efforts in the Florida Reef Tract.
Bountiful Fields of Captive-Raised Acropora
Aquarists like Samuel Nietzer are working around the globe to unlock the secrets of propagating stony corals en-masse, with amazing results.
Matt Pedersen says:
Some addtional updates: Bocas Mariculture reports the successful cultivation of Serranus flaviventris, which didn't make it onto the list, and two accomplishments initially attributed to Bocas were in fact reported by Till Deuss from earlier when he was working with Biota Palau, so these have been attributed to the Biota Group with date information.Matt Pedersen says:
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