In the waters of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), stressors are becoming more intense; meanwhile, on land in nearby Townsville, tanks full of young corals are being raised in an effort to insure the reef's future.
Corals grown in an offshore “coral nursery” at Fitzroy Island on the Great Barrier Reef have spawned for the first time, four years after being planted.
Minutes away from the Kenyan mainland, the densely forested island of Wasini is one of several starting lines for coral reef restoration efforts in the western Indian Ocean.