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Barrier Reef took a ‘hammering’ but most replanted corals are surviving – Sydney Morning Herald
About 25,000 new corals have been replanted on five reefs in the Great Barrier Reef network, with 85 per cent of them now growing.
One of the criteria was choosing sites which had different levels of impact to them.
All of the reef sites have really good areas and really bad areas in terms of stress impacts.
That is important because this model of coral rehabilitation and restoration uses the good areas to repair the bad.
The replanting work combines live corals, broken from coral reefs by recent storms, with corals grown in nurseries.
Until this program began several years ago, operators were not allowed to pick up and replant…
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