The World Bronchiectasis Conference is supporting the Resilient Reef Foundation and its activities :
Our seas are warming, so the challenge is to put coral reefs in the best position to adapt. It is about assisting recovery after disturbances that are occurring more frequently and retaining as much of the biological diversity that provides functionality and resilience. Resilient Reefs seeks to make a significant contribution to that collective effort.
We were the first on the Great Barrier Reef to undertake a program of active reef restoration. We established coral nurseries at Fitzroy Island and soon expanded the program to Moore Reef and Hastings Reef.
Corals in our midwater nurseries grow more than five times faster than on the reef in the absence of normal ecological stressors. The corals reach reproductive viability in about half the time, and they produce more offspring at spawning.
Our mission is to add billions of corals to the Great Barrier Reef.
Our signature Resilience & Recovery program is designed specifically to address the increasingly frequent, severe, and widespread coral bleaching that is a manifestation of climate change.
The program aims to achieve two core objectives:
- Create spawning stock in our nurseries to produce hundreds of millions of additional coral larvae every year to help build reef resilience in the good times.
- Lower the nurseries during periods of warm water and wild weather to preserve spawning stock, and turbo charge reef recovery in the bad times.
Our next steps include complementing the ocean-based nurseries with shore-based coral aquaculture and working with corals that have been subject to ‘assisted evolution’, which aims to enhance temperature tolerance.
We seek funds to develop the coral aquaculture facility. All donations are fully tax deductible in Australia. Please visit our website: https://rrf.org.au or contact Ryan Donnelly at ceo@rrf.org.au
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