Warming seas have bleached Australia's vast coral ecosystem below in recent years. Underwater gardens, where coral fragments are grown, are among the efforts to preserve the country's famed Great Barrier Reef.
Divers for the companies — all intimately acquainted with the reef and, like so many businesses, dependent on its vitality — scour the seafloor. There they collect broken pieces of coral and attach them to submerged frames on which the fragments can recover and grow. Ecologically minded tourists pay to see the unusual attraction.It’s a strategy that master reef guide Russell Hosp says is aimed at giving “Mother Nature a little bit of a boost.
None of the progress can overcome unchecked global warming, however. “A 1.5-degree world is really a death knell for reefs,” warned Carol Phua, who leads the World Wildlife Federation’s Global Coral Reef Initiative. Coral polyps have squishy bodies but have evolved the miraculous ability to secrete calcium carbonate, which makes up the visible architecture of a reef.
That focus is something Alan Wallish appreciates. He’s a tourism operator in Cairns who has spent several decades on the reef, and his business, Passions of Paradise, is among the five guiding companies partnering with the university scientists. The idea, he said, is “about looking after your own little patch.”
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