Following the state of emergency in French Polynesia, our event in Tahiti was canceled this year, however we are thrilled to highlight our
#weareoneocean coalition partner
@coralgardeners with another update.
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Threatened by climate change, healthy coral reefs are among Earth’s most biologically diverse ecosystems and they provide vital ecological services. In light of this, in 2019, with support from
@wsl and Dr. Austin Bowden-Kerby,
@coralgardeners planted super coral fragments onto their restoration tables. Fast forward one and a half years later, now hundreds of those nursery-grown super corals are ready to be transplanted onto damaged reefs to revive and enhance their resilience and help mitigate some of the climate change impacts on our one ocean.
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As Dr. Austin Bowden-Kerby pointed out in 2019, planting corals is not a long term solution to coral reef decline, but it does buy us time, while we all work to reduce carbon emissions as individuals, businesses, and governments. As...