How Coral Restoration works | Saving a Reef

Are coral in danger? Why are they important to us? What can we do to save them?
Let's take a closer look at how coral restoration works.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Start
0:59 Why Are corals important?
1:11 Reef, a habitat for marine life.
1:28 Reef, a source of food.
1:40 Reef, a tourism magnet.
1:52 Reef, a buffer against natural disasters.
2:07 Reef, science and progress for our species
02:18 What are corals?
02:34 What are the dangers to corals?
03:00 What is coral farming?
Interview with the Marine Biologist.
03:15 Why this project?
03:40 What did You have to consider for the project?
05:25 Can You explain the process of planting the coral?
06:22 How can You ensure Your corals wont bleach as well?
07:05 How will a project like this help the reef?
07:58 Will this project solve the problems coral face?
08:35 Are coral reefs really worth saving?
09:24 Final considerations
09:40 Go and watch Chasing Coral
By the way, if you want to learn all about some of the amazing reef inhabitants, check this video out Discover one of the coolest animals in the ocean...
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[@RookieReefer]

Its ridiculous that people don't realize how important the reefs are, out of sight, out of mind. This channel deserves a lot more attention than it's getting. I really enjoyed watching this, props my friend. Keep up the good work!

[@WetSouls]

Thank You very much! Especially coming from someone who understands their trade and devotes as much time as You to it, its a very meaningful compliment. We do our best to speak to those who dont realise and make it simple, so to spread awareness. 💙

[@AzulUnlimited]

Very nice video and channel!

[@WetSouls]

Thank You guys. Let me return that compliment. 💙

[@AzulUnlimited]

@@WetSouls haha thanks!! we also run a conservation and propagation project here in Komodo, but now with no clients at all is difficult to go out often and check the reef.

[@WetSouls]

Azul Unlimited 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 Indeed. We are lucky in that respect as its just a jump in from behind the divecenter in scuba for the deeper ones, while the rest can be done snorkeling. Any outlooks as to when things might start to move again there?

[@MrB0RR1S]

Protect our buffers and our life support systems. Keep up the good work all :)

[@WetSouls]

Thanks Arun. Nice one. Indeed we will keep the good work up. We are already at work again. 😉

[@Jane_lotus]

Why are these types of videos so underrated, I wish people would learn more about this

[@WetSouls]

Thanks Luffy. Appreciate the comment. Doing all I can to share this type of knowledge and experience. Feel free to share it if you want. Thanks for stopping by.

[@ooooneeee]

Thank you for your hard work, Charlie and colleagues ❤️. This is vital for the future of our oceans.

[@BlackMantaPhotography]

Such a good video - really great work 👏🏼

[@WetSouls]

And again ... Thanks a lot for that! Seen your videography btw. and Im a fan!!!

[@BlackMantaPhotography]

@@WetSouls that’s really kind - thanks. There’s some great stuff out there so hard to shine out from the masses. Always like to call out good work when I see it... All that alone time in the Maldives is really paying off!

[@WetSouls]

@@BlackMantaPhotography cheers! Really kind of You and thoroughly appreciated!

[@WetSouls]

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[@ritastmartin6886]

I wanted too become a marine biologist someday and this is one of the reasons why.

[@WetSouls]

Its never too late to live the dream 💙

[@unbreakableldorado7723]

Great work, this is so important!

[@WetSouls]

Thank You! and thanks for stopping by. 💙

[@shanewever]

Love the content!

[@WetSouls]

Thank You Shane

[@laurensrodi9501]

I haven't seen any credible study or theory that would result in reducing the temperature of the atmosphere or ocean. More so than factors like proximity to the sun, earths orbit. After the last ice age, the earth and oceans were warmer than they are now, how did coral and coastal marine life survive that period?

[@slednautica9068]

You are correct that temperatures have fluctuated over the thousands of years before us. However. those fluctuations took thousands of years themselves and allowed marine life to adapt with it. The difference this time is the rate of change. The changes are happening so quickly it’s very difficult for life to keep up. Once more, there is absolutely no question it has been caused by us.

[@agnusdei6736]

We are planning to continue simple projects here in the Philippines together with my small group of friends.Is there any online seminar or papers that we can access so our plan will be more effective? Thank you!

[@reynarodriguez2605]

I have a question. Won't the rust of the metal racks eventually affect them? Thanks for the info.

[@WetSouls]

Hello there Reyna. Thanks for watching and thanks for the question! No, generally the rust does not affect the growth or cause problems. When they are large enough, ideally they then get moved back to the frames. 💙

[@joycecristobal580]

You should check tubataha reef in the Philippines if we can still save it. I heard a wide coral bleaching in the area.

[@WetSouls]

Hello Joyce! Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds interesting and will def. be checked out. Are You from that part of the world?

[@joycecristobal580]

Yes. Very beautiful place. World heritage site

[@kkssofficial4257]

Nihon-jin irun da

[@gayalux1688]

Why not creating marine national parks? No fishing and no entry unless guided by a marine national expert for educational purposes.

[@WetSouls]

There are projects of this kind around the world and there should definitely be more to conserve and educate people. Reefs are such an important ecosystem and we need to do all we can to conserve them. Thanks for stopping by. Stay safe and all the best. 💙

[@novemharrison4524]

arent corals reefs gonna recover in 2050 most people at that time will already be using renewable energy

[@WetSouls]

Switching to renewables will help reduce our CO2 output and will go a long way to slowing climate change. However, corals are already struggling under the current conditions. So not only does climate change need to be stopped, it needs to be reversed. Bleaching is actually a stress related response which can be caused by many different things. Rising temperatures is just one of these stressors. Ocean acidification, overfishing, physical destruction, chemical and plastic pollution still remain problematic.

[@pingweihshan4665]

Cool vid. We humans are a horrible species :/

[@WetSouls]

Well, we aren't inherently but somehow we are rather good at damaging things ... sigh.

[@LightSearch]

I guess you are aware that the next 30 years of climate are locked in. So, I guess that you are also aware that your work is in vain, so kudos to you for doing it just because it's the right thing to do. Corals will be fine, just not in the next thousands of years. They survived previous mass extinctions and they're preparing to sail through this one. All the pretty corals in the reefs will go puff but in the deep the non-photosynthetic corals will survive and they will reclaim the surface waters once this has passed.

[@slednautica9068]

Thanks for your positivity on the subject, it really helps. I cannot for the life of me see the benefit of shooting someone's well intended hard work down. But each to thier own, maybe that's part of the problem. All that aside, and as someone who has worked with coral reefs all his life and watched the reefs around him crumble to nothing. I find "corals will be fine" deeply worrying. The problem (as highlights in the video) is much bigger than that. The shallow reef that you refer too is vital habitat for so much marine life and beyond. It provides ecosystem services which are so wide spread and complex its something that takes many years to understand, and something we are still learning about... so to say that deep water coral will be fine so we should just not even try is exactly why we need to make more educational videos like this.

[@machew2884]

How did you see the keyboard to type that out with your shortsightedness?

[@LightSearch]

@@slednautica9068 I am counting on 10-15 years of the world as we know it. When we have ice free summers in the arctic and the immediate consequences for the weather patterns in the northern hemisphere, lots of people will realise that the time that we could have turned this around has passed a few decades ago. While the reefs are one of environments less capable of tolerating change, they have gone through this before, and they always bounced back. Hope that things will turn out ok is one of the reasons they will not.