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The growing appetite for coral and other reef organisms has begun to take a toll on wild populations and rare marine ecosystems. 2,3,8


Coral reefs are deteriorating globally at alarming rates. Ten percent of the reefs have already been lost and sixty percent are threatened. Coral reefs provide a home for one quarter of all marine species. 1,2,7
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The mortality rate of coral harvested for aquariums is close to one hundred percent. Many die from damage during collection or shipping while others perish through lack of skill or knowledge of the aquarist. 2,4,6,7,8


Ninety percent of the animals in the marine aquarium market are captured wild. Studies show that up to two-thirds of the fish were dead in six months. Twenty-seven percent died in collection, transit or storage in pet stores, the rest in home or public aquariums. 3,5

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Cyanide is still being used to catch live fish. Cyanide not only poisons the fish, but also destroys their habitat, killing coral polyps and their symbiotic algae, as well as other small organisms necessary for healthy reefs. 3,7
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Coral Bleaching in the Philippines

Solar Generation in the Philippines presenting coral bleaching problem.

New reef for Red Sea

Divers plant an artificial reef to protect the natural ones from divers at the Israeli Red Sea resort of Eilat.

Intensive diving is damaging the resort's natural reefs which form some of the world's most diverse coral communities and experts are hoping the new artificial version will solve the problem.

Paul Chapman reports.

Slideshow of Structures,Nov.2005,Part 2 Coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming.
This is a Dive-tour of the Structures.
Part 2 of 2

Slideshow of Structures,Nov.2005,Part 1 coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming. This is a tour of the Structures.

Diving Structures, April 2005, Part 2 coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming.
This is a Dive-tour of the Structures.

Diving Structures, April 2005, Part 1 Coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming.
This is a Dive-tour of the Structures.

Karang Lestari coral reef conservation

In Pemuteran,Bali, scientists, conservationists, hotels, dive shops, fishermen, and villages have gotten together to build coral nurseries on which corals grow faster than normal, and around which fish school. To repopulate the area as quickly as possible with coral and fish, coral nurseries were built using the Electrolytic Mineral Accretion Technology (BiorockTM) of Hilbertz and Goreau.
It is an outstanding effort to save corals from manmade destruction by bombs, cyanide fishing and global warming.

White Pox Disease

The elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, has been a major reef-building coral in the Caribbean for the last 220,000 years. However, since the ... all » early 1970's, the dominance of this species within the reef system has declined dramatically (McClanahan & Muthiga, 1998). The decline of A. palmata can be attributed to two diseases: White Band and White Pox Disease. The following footage shows a patch of A. palmata covered with large lesions characteristic of White Pox (Patterson, et al., 2002). It has been demonstrated that this disease is caused by Serratia marcescens, a bacterial Mini-Documentaries Short Movies Home Cniderian Aggression Living In Groups Reef Dynamics Reproduction Sharks and Rays Shifting Baselines Stressed Corals Symbioses Threats To Reefs Visual Biology and Mimicry The elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, has been a major reef-building coral in the Caribbean for the last 220,000 years. However, since the early 1970’s, the dominance of this species within the reef system has declined dramatically (McClanahan & Muthiga, 1998). The decline of A. palmata can be attributed to two diseases: White Band and White Pox Disease. The following footage shows a patch of A. palmata covered with large lesions characteristic of White Pox (Patterson, et al., 2002). It has been demonstrated that this disease is caused by Serratia marcescens, a bacterial pathogen associated with human sewage (Patterson et al. 2002). Credits Cinematography: Neilan Kuntz Edited by: Neilan Kuntz Written by: Dr. Olga Pantos Location: Bocas del Toro, Panama (2003) McClanahan, T.R. and N.A. Muthiga (1998) Ecological shift in a remote coral atoll of Belize over 25 years. Environmental Conservation 25(2): 122-130. Patterson, K., J. Porter, et al. (2002) The etiology of white pox, a lethal disease of the Caribbean elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata. Proceeding of the National Academy of Science 99 (13): 8725-8730.

Coral Bleaching and Coral Disease

This footage looks at the disease outbreaks that occured during the bleaching event of 1997 at Sand Key Reef near Key West