Ever heard of microfragmentation? No? Neither had I. Until I came across the work of Dr David Vaughan. Basically he cuts coral into little pieces. And then regrows them. Hundreds of them in one day. The natural self-healing response to injury creates a cup cake sized piece of coral in four months instead of the usual two years in the wild. Wild coral can take anywhere from 25 – 75 years to reach sexual maturity. With this method the time-frame is reduced to three years.
How cool is that!
Coral reefs are being killed off faster than they can regenerate, due to factors such as pollution, overfishing and rising ocean temperatures. The projects that have evolved from Dr Vaughan’s work are helping to redress that.
During our stay in Darwin we visited this Maritime Discovery Centre where they had a living coral reef ecosystem. It was fascinating.
Raili Tanska
Never give up hope
It does look fascinating, we live in such a beautiful world and it does depress me that people don’t always appreciate it ❤️
We need to nurture and care for our home instead of treating it like a rubbish pit while raping and pillaging it. The animal kingdom looks after its home better than we do! And we are supposed to be the intelligent ones 😢
Very interesting indeed!
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So good to hear of people doing good things instead of trashing this planet for profit!
So true!
Amazine good news.
I thought so too
That is fascinating. So good to see things like that being done.
It gives me hope to know that there are people out there working hard to fix things