If you’re one of the people who are interested in the fate of the corals, you may have heard until now of the Great Barrier Reef Legacy. This is just one of the numerous organizations that tries to collect and study the coral colonies. Mainly, they focus on the colonies that manage to survive the major bleaching episodes.
But What’s with the Super Corals?
The super corals are this organization’s hope that they can restore the reefs that were dramatically affected by the climate change. The far Norther corals are now seen as a superstock of GBR species. Recently, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) managed to collect 12 live such Super colonies.
The spawning of 9 Super Coral colonies were a world first, which made plenty of environmentalists happy. Now, they are joining more than 200,000 other coral larvae, which have previously spawned in November. The latter are currently settling successfully on some special plates, designed at the National Sea Simulator.
Further Research
At the same time, the University Technology Sidney (UTS) has collected 99 live coral fragments. Next, they plan to further analyze their biological make up. With all this research, scientists all over the world hope to find the solution to save coral reefs in all our oceans.
Climate change has become a serious threat with all its bleaching episodes. Although this is not the first time in history when bleaching affects the corals in the oceans, it could be the biggest such happening. This is all the more reasons for researchers all around the world to be worries about the further coral development. We can only hope that through their latest advances, they will be able to protect and recreate the missing colonies. Meanwhile, they are focusing on repopulating the reefs with these Super Corals they managed to find.
