Restoring Florida's Dying Coral Reefs | Refurbished | Insider

[@justinhart3042]

Swam these reefs as a child and could always see the decay in stages. At one point only the strong and hearty brain coral were strong enough to even survive. Super stoked to see we’re restoring our Everglades and Coral reef

[@johnblaze5252]

I saw a 5 year Timelapse from Bali using a different method. The results are real & amazing. Everything comes back.

[@apiii73]

I have been diving in the Florida Keys for 40 years. So very sad to watch the reefs die ! It is so good to have hope!

[@seancourtney9021]

yes, hearing that 98% of the Reefs in the area are gone/dead is quite sobering.

[@robertlalor8090]

Fantastic work. Inspirational. Bless you all.

[@PincheBecky0Effsgiven]

This is amazing! Thank you.

[@lesterjdeguzman]

I took an environmental science class and my instructor made us watch chasing coral in 2016. It’s so refreshing to see the progress in what they’ve done then in 2016 till now in 2024. This makes me so happy seeing the updates of what they’ve done to restore the reefs.

[@sokahthehusky8614]

This made my day! Thank you for the wonderful work you are doing. ❤

[@BigBass-xf5yi]

Thank you so much for this work. If I ever win the lottery, I’m donating 90% to this cause.

[@BlenderStudy]

Great job..!! Thank you for the update, Insider..!!

[@tsti1es]

Great work. I want to help.

[@KenHeslip]

Great work but sad that it had to be done.

[@ryancormack6934]

If the corals are dying due to change in pH, is this a futile exercise?

[@CoralRestorationFoundation]

Despite the ongoing threat to coral reefs from climate change and ocean acidification there is still hope, and there is every need to continue to work to restore damaged coral reef ecosystems. Despite warming waters and increasing ocean acidification, the corals we are outplanting are thriving. Many of our older outplants are now spawning, which demonstrates that they are healthy- in order for corals to spawn, they must have energy available to do so. This success is likely due to a few main factors: 1) Many of the local stressors which contributed to the decline in these coral populations have now been abated 2) It is likely that the wild coral genotypes that provided the initial parent stock for our operations are hardy, having withstood decades of multiple stressors. Their persistence in the wild until a decade ago indicates that these genotypes are resilient and probably capable of eventually adapting to increasingly dynamic environmental conditions. 3) Diverse ecosystems are resilient to stressors. By ensuring that we are working to support the reefs’ natural diversity, we are giving coral reefs a better chance of adapting to changing environmental conditions. Saving coral reefs requires action at multiple levels. While organizations work to curb carbon emissions, it is essential that we work to maintain viable wild coral populations that will have a chance to recover once we mitigate the effects of climate change, including ocean acidification.

[@ryancormack6934]

@@CoralRestorationFoundation Interesting. Thanks for responding! Glad it seems to be having a sustained impact.

[@bobleclair5665]

Would old iron boats or iron barges be a benefit to growing corral in and placing them in desired places around the Keys

[@fctucycy8v8yvy67]

@@CoralRestorationFoundationthis aged poorly

[@Niko_from_Kepler]

Not necessarily. The more time you give the species, the more resistant they get.

[@jocelynadolfo-cg1vm]

Thank you so much. All of you are the best.

[@Evergreenroblox1]

Are those corals acropora coral? Btw, thank you so much for saving the Florida coral reef! I have a fish tank with corals and when I got them, I feel happy, happier than before. My corals mean a lot to me.

[@Astralocean]

I really love the idea of an offshore coral nursery. Especially at that scale sounds amazing. It sounds way better than the idea I had of a warehouse full of aquacultured corals to put in the ocean 😂

[@MrSic6766]

awesome work, thanks to you guys 🎉

[@gabrielg.2401]

Beautiful work. Thank you 🌿

[@ipanemarie]

thank you for doing this work! hope we have something similar in the philippine reefs.

[@sargent4465]

This video needs so much more recognition...

[@jdubs604]

Thank you so much for saving our planet. We need to stop driving cars!!

[@samschmit7181]

What about the Great Barrier Reef in Australia?

[@forpspeakingclass4444]

we probably nearly killed that too :)

[@boohere2]

She said in the video that even there it's on decline

[@mividalocastudio9366]

Sounds like Australia needs to get on the ball and start restoring their dying coral reefs too, instead of sitting back and being passive as they watch it further decline!

[@cathykrueger4899]

@@mividalocastudio9366You should google what they’re doing in Australia. Nobody’s sitting back and watching the reefs die. Where did you get that from?

[@Viqtor]

@@mividalocastudio9366they’re doing a better job than America

[@crowned-blue]

You do Good work guys. God Bless You

[@4amall685]

This made my dayy 👏keep up the amazing work ❤️❤️🌟

[@petersalas1011]

...thank you, Congratulations, on your post, on the positive influence in the world. May it be braced into an on growing momentum. Merry Christmas.

[@lucygraf2869]

You guys are literally saving earth

[@shatnermohanty6678]

Beautiful 👌

[@pepercat17]

Do you guys implore other nursery tactics besides the tree method?

[@Badficwriter]

I didnt' know Florida had a barrier reef. Barrier reefs protects coasts. Considering there was a giant bleaching die-off last summer, with this summer even hotter, I wonder if the loss of the reefs has been part of Florida's increased vulnerability to flooding.

[@omar-bl8qw]

Amazing work ❤

[@doncoon4154]

How do I apply to work with coral restoration?

[@nedime2468]

Thank you for doing this!! 🙏🏻 The reef coral have lost thier vibrant colour! 💔

[@Yesievenloveyou]

Amazing work! Keep it up!

[@bigadventure3797]

Only 2% of our reefs left in Fl thats horrific. On a bright note I was fishing a grass flat near Marathon last year and their was a ton of what appeared to be Stylophora growing in the very shallow water I was fishing near the fast moving water from a nearby bridge.

[@holyhex6520]

How do these coral farms survive hurricanes and other storms?

[@grumpyaustralian6631]

Just fiine actually, record ocean temps however have thoroughly destroyed the entire project.

[@silasyadostar7648]

Greet they are restoring the coral reefs when other dont do it and good work restoring coral reefs for it helps animals to🎉🎉❤❤😊😊🎉 and help the eco system

[@fionamason4725]

Thank you, great work & the content I like to see!

[@VikasSingh-ve4fp]

Cool Work Team.. Thanks

[@daniswara1164]

An acre and a half wide coral nursery is the biggest in the world kind of saddened me

[@johndeitz9349]

Thank you! Excellent review of biology. I do outreach education and this priceless.

[@grubber6548]

Amazing job ❤

[@c4snipar]

Keep up the good work and thank you!

[@gungasc]

Can't wait to hear about current events

[@GurunathHirve]

Watching this made my eyes all watery.

[@stefenmangtun3036]

Woo amazing video thank you for sharing

[@gbj6581]

98% decline in Florida.. That's insane. What's the main stresses causing the reefs to decline? is it warmer waters? How does it get to that point. But as you say its better than nothing. Great work, keep at it!

[@networkzsupport]

Warmer waters is top of the list

[@katrinat4725]

Bless your hearts❤️❤️❤️

[@patrickhepburn7867]

Thank you God Bless you and your efforts

[@DonDiesel85]

Right on❕

[@LLJloveyou]

Thank you❤

[@mark2goal]

Keep up the great work 🥲

[@JoeSupian]

Thanks guys

[@athenafunkhouser7581]

I really want to be involved and I live in Miami Beach Fl what can I do to be part of restoring the reefs. I want to physically help also restore them

[@donalddelabar767]

? What did last summer’s record warm water temperatures do ?

[@sH-ed5yf]

Kill more

[@priyanthakumara4975]

Good job...💕🤙

[@rayrocher6887]

Thanks for saving the future, thanks for coral reefs amen, great heroes

[@jennglow4647]

Very cool 😃

[@matthewreilly7153]

What is the cause in the first place?

[@pauljackson171]

Much respect.

[@gabrielfrancis7270]

Thanks🌱🌱🌱🗻🗻🗻🗻

[@rhombifer566]

Good job 👍🏻

[@alexforget]

Why does it grow on their trees and not naturaly on the reef? What is the pressure on the coral? Before the solution, what is the cause of the problem? Is it the lionfish, water temperature, pollution, etc? If it's again the water temperature that is blamed then coral should start to grow north were they don't usually, is that the case, why not?

[@MapleReef]

Doings Gods work! Well done

[@kingneef597]

Thank you

[@indragunawan8464]

Respect ❤

[@jacobmaryen8142]

Fantastic.

[@RandyZimmerman-pp5wj]

That was amazing ❤

[@sgbbco3981]

Thank you so much. I wish more understood the importance of these ecosystems and the collapse of that Ecological system. Thank you. I hope more humans become educated on our individual impacts and what we can change for a better future. Asexual reproduction is a great way to reseed reefs quickly but we need to fund research and facilities for sexual reproduction of keystone coral species. I for one am obsessed with everything coral and missed my calling in being a Marine Biologist. Profits over the planet and its inhabitants has to change.

[@earlinemcgahen3931]

an once of prevention is worth a pound of cure

[@BrooklynSaunders718]

This is dope

[@kucheriya1]

Environmental restoration should be given to pentagon, with their unlimited budget they would turn entire earth from blue to green.

[@mechadoggy]

The Pentagon is too busy sending billions of our taxpayer money over to Ukraine

[@KyleenDrake]

Got any other types of corrals you're growing?

[@hunterhq295]

I hope things are improving now, but hear the ocean temperature high this el nino

[@ashkumar8797]

Fantastic

[@Mumbamumba]

That's fantastic!

[@marysherrill8821]

Mossy Earth has done something similar. They built structures to promote coral growth.

[@outforbeer]

Mossy earth method is better imho. Better value for money and they restore a much bigger area at smaller cost . The steel lattices provide the small fishes lots of hiding spots. Compared to the method in this video which just attach them to rocks

[@khurramkhurshed9427]

Interesting

[@Skyset_angel]

You are doing God’s work thank you

[@kakungcu]

Restoring disappearing corals

[@bant6586]

True saviors!

[@doodad77]

Eutrophication among else happening? Seems you're aware about substantial factors & influences need recognize, address & resolve. Looks like this has a good chance with your involvement😁 Is that an appropriate Coral for that area, is there some flexibility & able sustain instead merely harvest & introduce? Any water chemistry monitored? Characterized any more marine communities around the area & their respective ecology? As recognized & potentially resolved, the near shore & human encroached areas are overtly affected although more Coral & Cnidaria still abound depend upon where observed beside beyond & avoid anthro imposed issues.

[@Iceify_]

Only for it to be destroyed by bleaching this summer. So sad

[@thebassassin5507]

Ohhh nooooo. A mono culture. Really? I hope the mothers are strong and resilient.

[@TimothyGrabarczyk]

Some good news in 2023. Out of curiosity, why is only the same species of coral being grown, rather than try to build more biodiversity?

[@CoralRestorationFoundation]

We work wiith 1,305 putative coral genotypes across 20 species! Right now we have the capacity to return populations of staghorn (Acropora cervicornis) elkhorn (Acropora palmata) and two species of boulder coral (Orbicella faveolata and Obricella annularis). Staghorn and elkhorn are listed on the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species as “Critically Endangered”, one step away from “Extinct in the Wild”. They are also both listed as threatened under the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA). In future years we will continue to raise and return diverse populations of corals to the wild. We value the importance of biodiversity because we know diverse ecosystems are resilient to stressors. By ensuring that we are working to support the reefs’ natural diversity, we are giving coral reefs a better chance of adapting to changing environmental conditions.

[@TimothyGrabarczyk]

@@CoralRestorationFoundation Talk about thorough replies. Thanks! It's either way interesting to read about.

[@lucaaqua8521]

💚

[@timbocracy]

But marine epoxy is plastic after all tho

[@DavidRodriguez-gl5pn]

This will mean nothing if we don’t actually fix the problems, humanity

[@outforbeer]

Feel like this method is so inefficient

[@Nebresto]

Good

[@askjeevescosby2928]

Parrot fish shows up "OHHH A BUFFET!!"

[@adelkamouche8263]

،⁦❤️⁩⁦👨‍🎓⁩

[@alexandraquintero7443]

What about coral diversity?

[@kurihara9023]

How to join your tea

[@tututataanimator]

Here before blows up

[@LL-ii3fy]

Yeshua our Creator will restore the coral reefs during his milinial Kingdom.

[@glauberamos]

What caused 98% of the reef destruction? Is it boats?

[@ferrylv5125]

Chinese should be efforts like this to restore our coral that they damage it to make the military artificial island in misreef reef and shabina shoal part of our EEZ ..

[@kaimana7047]

Hawaii ocean coral reef are disappearing

[@solracblonde9480]

95 % of it died last year.

[@shawnkim1040]

Wow that’s incredible. do they rotate mothers to maintain biodiversity when propagating them? Seriously a dream of a job

[@codybrady387]

Example of heart in the right place, but unfortunately not even close to nature and will either fail or have unintended negative consequences. I think really need to adress diversity of the coral they grow. I also think it's a problem basically making one giant coral reef that is all a clone. I would compare it to a wheat field thafs all genetically the same. 1 pest etc. And it's all dead very quickly. Lol I'm sure I'll get a lot of hate for this comment. Just think we as humans need to do more to try and understand before we jump in try to help.