Efforts are underway to revive damaged Pacific coral reefs by actively gardening them (propagating and transplanting the coral).
This video was directed and produced by Jonathan Clay for the BBC’s Natural History Unit as part of their “South Pacific” documentary. The resolution is high enough to make the video enjoyable at full-screen magnification.
Christophe
why was the coral gone before? if it’s environmentally linked, isn’t that going to disturb the new coral?
very nice video anyway.
Minnesotastan
Christophe – I found an article at National Geographic (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0411/feature3/index.html) indicating that the Fiji coral was thermally damaged by transiently elevated ocean temps. That was some years ago; not sure if it’s applicable to the damage shown here.
Xinavera
Great video. As a I recall, some coral damage is due to anchors and other man-made damage. This should definitely help.
Briannana
Kalel: While I have seen some pretty stupid human tricks when attempting to protect the environment, such as cleaning dead salmon bodies from spawn rivers and basically depleting the river of food for countless organisms, but I doubt that this is an example of that.
Abundant coral is a good thing. It’s like johnny apple seeding the ocean. We aren’t introducing new or aggressive species. We are merely helping maintain the areas that we helped destroy the crap out of.
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