A 'coral ark' biobank solution to preserving Great Barrier Reef | Charlie Veron | Australian Story

Scientist Charlie Veron has spent his much of his career underwater charting the world's coral reef wonderlands. Subscribe: bit.ly/3nO2CDi
Now, as the Great Barrier Reef faces its biggest challenge, the 77-year-old reveals an ambitious rescue plan for the future. Subscribe: / abcnewsindepth
He is collecting the 400 species of coral on the Great Barrier Reef to preserve in a "coral ark" or biobank.
It’s a bold plan, but could it be the solution to future-proofing our precious world heritage-listed site.
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what an incredible fella :D inspiring! I hope donations keep coming for the arc project

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What a wonderful, wonderful story. Thank you for sharing.

[@vivianepassos4645]

Thanks for sharing your work!! You're very inspiring 🙏🏻

[@flosslittle5231]

Thank you

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Or not killing the great barrier reef in the first place is more preferable

[@rashkavar]

Clearly, and that was mentioned. Equally true is that not having a car accident is preferable to having your insurance able to cover the expenses incurred by such an accident. As a species we have about as much control over the fate of the Great Barrier Reef as we, as individuals, have of avoiding having any car accident throughout our lives: it's possible to avoid, but difficult to do so and very dependent on a lot of other people doing the right thing as well. Making a respository of living corals for use in a hypothetical future where we're trying to actively restore the Great Barrier Reef (or any other coral reef) is an insurance policy, to protect against the possible death of the Great Barrier Reef. And furthermore, it's something that a group of a few dozen marine biologists with a relatively limited budget can do. Fixing climate change isn't something Charlie Veron and his friends and coworkers can do - that's going to take the combined efforts of the entire world to fix, which means getting a world worth of politicians who are willing to work together to find solutions rather than bickering about who to blame. Which....likely will only happen when something big happens like sea levels rising to the point where Manhattan stops being an island and starts being a bunch of buildings sticking out of the water.

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Respect❤

[@noongourfain]

GBR looks unwell. A far cry from how it looked to Cousteau.

[@DragonsOfAra]

Unfortunately the GBR is a dead man walking. It will not survive the next 50+ years of increasing water temperatures and agricultural runoff. Therefore the coral bank is vital.

[@snowstrobe]

@@DragonsOfAra A tragic reality... and something we've known about for over 40 years.

[@ShapezPuller64]

Thank the Minerals Council of Australia (et. al all their derivatives) and their lobbyists.

[@snowstrobe]

Whilst our politicans fiddle, and the majority of citizens look away, some heros are out there getting the necessary jobs done.

[@Codysdab]

Good thing the rescue plan isn't needed anymore, the reef is blooming lovely.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

He is the Coral "Noah"

[@ViviVr777]

❤

[@javedakhtar6908]

Respekt ❤️.

[@jakebryant9723]

Mate what do marine geologist say in regards to core samples

[@matthewdellagola9477]

Have you ever had a conversation with Dr Peter Ridd?

[@ShapezPuller64]

That saving our country for the wellbeing of our future generations isn't seen as a duty-of-care by our government and that it falls into the shoulders of a few people is a national and historic disgrace.

[@ritamariekelley4077]

All for a greedy few to collect more money. The Crown-of-thorns was one thing, but corporate greed is lethal. The coral graveyards are more desolate than a desert.

[@mickm5810]

It's THEIR ABC. Not YOURS.

[@garmyn]

this is possibly the most profound, prescient and poignant video on the internet

[@jakebryant9723]

Mate the coral is living organisms. Lives and dies mate less then 5 percent has died. From bleaching

[@matthewdellagola9477]

Have you ever had a conversation with Dr Peter Ridd?