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‘Coral IVF’ to restore Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – World Economic Forum
The newly grown coral has just survived its first bleaching event and is on track to spawn next year.
- A coral population conceived using ‘coral IVF’ has just survived their first bleaching events – and are set to spawn next year.
- Coral IVF is a larvae restoration technique, involving collecting sperm and eggs released during mass spawning.
- More than 60 corals off Heron Island are now on the way to being the first re-established reproducing population in the Great Barrier Reef.
Coral populations from Australias first Coral IVF trial on the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 have not only survived recent bleaching…
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