• Let's have some happy news, shall we? Jamaican reef re-building process going great!
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[quote]Regenerating reefsBut there is some hope. Marine biologist Andrew Ross runs Seascape, a firm helping to re-grow the island's reefs bit by bit. He's created an artificial reef made of metal, which has proven to be successful. Over the past nine months, it's slowly become covered with coral. He and his team do the work that algae-grazing species used to take care of. "Until the coral gets established, you have to pick it off by hand - there's not enough fish on the structure to keep it going," Ross told DW. Seascape locates areas where the reef is recovering naturally. "We take very small samples from each of those corals, and we put them into a nursery and we grow them," Ross said. It takes from six to 12 months for the coral fragments to grow 10 times in size. At this size they're then used to repopulate existing nurseries and start new nurseries. Any leftover coral is replanted onto the reef.[/quote] So the reefs in jamaica have had some pretty goddamn awful luck, with a hurricane and disease. But it's pretty awesome to see this attempt to repair them actually having some success. [URL]http://www.dw.de/jamaican-coral-reefs-get-a-helping-hand/a-17864466[/URL]
-snip completely irrelevant- [editline]22nd August 2014[/editline] It's good to hear that it's going well. :)
It's probably due to their close relationship with the reefer
[QUOTE=Wafflemonstr;45764843]It's probably due to their close relationship with the reefer[/QUOTE] No surprise this is being done in one of the greenest areas on the planet
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