Tag: coral

LIZARD Island has received its first delivery of Coral IVF babies with nearly 10 million coral larvae released across four of the local reef locations under the Federal government funded Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.

THE world’s first dedicated coral conservation facility will be located at the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef in Port Douglas, North Queensland, Australia. The Living Coral Biobank aims to secure the long-term future and biodiversity of corals worldwide which are under severe threat due to climate change.

So the greatest sex show on Earth, for the smutty-minded and marine biologists at least, has come and gone. It was good to see some coral spawn, but … well…I guess I remember the good ol’ days. The spawn, unleashed, have ascended en masse to be concentrated into stinky pink slicks, so vast that they can be seen from space. Within these slicks is a seething soup of sex….

Like landscapes, organisms are the sum of complex networks of interacting elements from many different groups of smaller organisms. Coral colonies are a dramatic example of this idea, with animal, plant, bacterial and other actors contributing to the whole that we call a “coral”.

Natalie has a socially distanced email chat with John about his and Jenny’s remarkable Coral Nurture Program on the Great Barrier Reef.