After three years of coral restoration; a dead broken reef comes back to life

Andrew Taylor and his team at Blue Corner Marine Research have been restoring an area of reef in the Nusa Islands, Bali. The previously degraded, dead rubble slope is now well on it's way to becoming a healthy coral reef! For the last three years the team has been stabilizing rubble, growing a coral nursery and transplanting corals... and the reef is being restored.
This video shows before and after footage - of the reef 3 years ago before restoration began; compared to now.
A full description of the restoration project and regular updates can be found at www.bluecornerconservation.org/coral-reef-restoration

[@joelmarcelodeleon1165]

Wow very inspiring and optimistic marine life will be restored. Salute for this Coral Reef transplantation Programs👌💖

[@cn5776]

thank you so much for my grand children

[@TheOfficialWorldOfBoats]

Thankyou. I hope that one day I can be a part of something like this

[@bluebeeboo]

This just made my day, thank you to everyone involved in this restoration! I wish I could see more of these restoration projects 💙

[@kikotv9333]

WOW!!! Good job for saving our planet that is sooo awesome, Speechless.

[@brendanmaltby1424]

Great work everyone it looks fantastic well done 👍

[@HaloWolf102]

This is the first step, active transplants. But waters will continue to get warmer, if we do not decrease our fossil fuel dependency. This extinction could happen again in just a few years time, and it would get even worse. If anyone cares about our environment, you will take active measures to ensure you do not pollute as much, and I thank your efforts.

[@ZaredStankiewicz]

Incredible work!

[@fraservalleycataractlaser9178]

Absolutist inspiring! Thank you!!

[@reefphotographyig5225]

great job, congrats

[@Nichen]

Sorry someone was cutting onions again in the kitchen...amazing work. I wanna help restoring the coral reefs.

[@calipsosreefs4843]

Thank you for what u do

[@brettbarrett2533]

Please share more of this type of content. This is absolutely incredible and in only 3 years. We can do this, humans! Let us save the reefs.

[@QueenPrism]

This video deserves more views I would encourage you to update your thumbnail to something more eye catching and shortening your title to something like 2021 Coral Reef Restoration (3 YEARS). Absolutely phenomenal work on that coral reef by the way! Amazing!

[@jrwarrior23]

I love seeing this.

[@canad1anadventure]

Right on!

[@teddyhansen9178]

Thanks a lot...really you and your team are amazing ... just amazing 🙂

[@bluecornerconservation]

Thank you so much 😀

[@coleman3001]

the coral reefs are my favorite thing on this planet. it means a lot to me that you are making a difference.

[@scheffabi]

we need this in the Los Roques archipielago, Venezuela... the extensive reefs are bleached , its so sad, the islanders really care for nature, they even have a humble conservation program for diferrent turtle species... they would die of joy if the reefs could recover

[@nitisiriravipas680]

Wow Great job

[@shawnburge4978]

Smart people helping the world. Awesome! 😎

[@Michi85387]

🙏🏼 Thank you!❤

[@jickles5078]

This is INCREDIBLE, and in only three years!! it's been three more years, and by now I really wonder how this place is looking - I know the heat has just gotten worse and worse, but hopefully they've managed to upkeep this place!

[@bluecornerconservation]

Yes we continue maintenance, monotoring and expansion of our coral restoration efforts. The site is looking more and more like a healthy biodiverse coral reef 😊

[@meriannebratu2921]

II’m so glad your bringing back coral reefs back to life

[@danadickson3932]

So happy for you Andrew! You really are making progress 🐟🐠🐡🦀 Looking forward to being back someday and diving with you again 💛

[@E3ECO]

All that in just three years? Impressive! I had no idea coral could grow that fast.

[@user-fc6yp1xq1i]

Thank you so much 😭🙏🏼 this is amazing

[@unbreakableldorado7723]

Great work, keep it up!

[@pameladelcarmensaraviapere1940]

Beautiful, thank you! great work

[@ukfishguy8133]

Amazing....................thank you.

[@mkuhon]

Cool!

[@matthewhayden6505]

Absolutely incredible. Can’t thank you guys enough for all your hard work towards restoring our reefs!

[@BottomUPBoats]

Andrew and team.... Love your work, liked and shared to get your good news story out and about !!!!!

[@brettzicarelli9064]

Thank you. It’s beautiful

[@hunterhq295]

Gives hope

[@stanphillips3263]

Amazing job

[@muhammadfazrimanurung2009]

Thank you for your work

[@Positivereal]

Thankyou for doing this, I've subscribed!

[@carlbattle9306]

Hope it seems HOPE is here brilliant, wow

[@jorgenfrohlich6954]

Well done 💪🏻

[@paulfriese4689]

Kerja Bagus!

[@hasanjaafar6903]

Beautiful

[@RobBoryckiGolf]

Wow amazing work

[@XRPriest777]

Good Work

[@crazyguy10]

This is truly amazing ~

[@jasonvoorhees7288]

That is awesome.

[@erica.5583]

Wow!! Good job! You guys ever think about transferring corals from aquariums? Home and professional/commercial?

[@novaploca2080]

Bravo!!

[@mindaugasrugienius]

I will submit this video to daily dose of internet maybe they will support this guy

[@afaahiya8232]

Amazing

[@xisotopex]

hopefully the locals are 100% on board with this. whats the status of this area now?

[@LovroRavbar]

Wow!

[@kevinarnold4007]

So happy to see this, keep doing what you're doing! This is awesome. Can I sign up to help?

[@jasenokunnuga9532]

Crazy this only got 6k views

[@jordanjreamer203]

I’m in count me in

[@Ch11ran]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@aaronjohnson718]

Things like this is what elon musk should be spending $44 billion on not buying Twitter

[@xisotopex]

how did it happen? run-off? silt?

[@Loja_das_Macroalgas]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Alex_Correa]

How was the area before? What was the reason why the area had the rubble in the first place? Natural disaster? Human pollution? "Global warming"? What are we doing to prevent the initial cause to destroy this artificial "restoration" in a near future? Do you think all that work was the best for the environment? Why? Or was just a nice adventure and way to keep busy with another project?

[@bluecornerconservation]

a full write up of our project including area description and methodology can be seeing here: bluecornerconservation.org/coral-reef-restoration