Hacking evolution to grow super coral
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- Coral reefs sustain life for 1 billion people around the world, but 90% will be extinct by 2050 if we don’t find a solution now.
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The coral reef ecosystem, that takes up less than 1% of the seafloor, sustains the livelihoods of up to one billion people and 25% of Marine life.
But by 2050, less than 30 years away, over 90% of the world's
reefs are projected to die.
That's why a small group of scientists are growing coral 50 times faster and more resilient than in the wild. If they get this right, there will be coral reefs for future generations.
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Do you think this is a good approach?
I think this is a good approach. As Indonesian with more then 17.000 islands, it should hold the most healthy coral forest. I lives in the capital with island nearby, dead corals are everywhere. It was dead because polluted water comes from the city. With this approach, people and government are pushed to make the water quality better because they already paid for some services.
I'd be surprised if there is no unforeseen consequence by doing this. Considering how complex and unpredictable nature is, we'll rebuild one thing and demolish another. Technology has led us here- I don't think you can have both it and nature coexist in the long run.
@@falsch4761 So many socialists here lol, if it results in real change will you care that the people innovating made money?
@@schadenfraud5134 I would like to point out that some of the most diverse ecosystems on earth are basically human influenced, and transformed. When we do it right we end up making things better for everyone and everything. Alot of lands that people think of as the 'Natural Landscape' are basically human playgrounds shaped by our activities over long periods of times.
Like beavers and ants, human technology is no more 'Good' or 'Bad' for nature at large than anything else, it's ultimately about us figuring out how to balance that technology with everything around it.
Humans shaped the Amazon, the grasslands of multiple continents, and the jungles of india. Unforeseen consequences will definitely come... but we can Easily foresee the consequences of Not doing this kind of work. And it's not good.
The constantly reduced populations of the coral reef fauna and flora caused by changes in the bio-ecosystem due to Global warming.
In my opinion, artificially accelerating the reproduction rate of selected coral species is not a long-term solutions to the general problem.
Most corals have a very narrow temperature tolerance, as a result corals will first expel the symbiotic algae that live inside them causing them to lose an important food source and then become vulnerable to disease, and eventually die if the marine heatwave lasts too long.
Given that climate change over time and water get warmer, it is only natural that the pre-existing marine life ecosystem will forced to adopt to the new environmental conditions or extinct. As a result corals are more likely to end up in deeper water, which means some spices will survive, but they receive less sunlight and grow with a slower rate, meanwhile many natural habitats will change.
It is causal to take steps in order to sustain life on Earth but we must be well aware of the fact that our planet have faced many extinctions over it's lifetime.
-> Ordovician-silurian Extinction, Devonian Extinction, Permian-triassic Extinction, Triassic-jurassic Extinction, Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction.
Humans ability to engineer ways to destroy and repair our environment will never cease to amaze me.
Humans are by far the most interesting organism on this planet 😂
LOL 😂
Biomimicry is by far the most important topic for the 21. Century
@Robert Lemon the whole aspects
IIRC, Dr. Who once referred to humans as "the greatest force for good and evil in the Universe." Well, most likely not the _Universe,_ but at least within our local neighborhood. :)
Just an idea
Engage with tourist companies that do freedives. Ask if they want to help place their own corals with a personalised message. Teach them that the added price tag is to help fund these operations.
Interesting idea!
@@freethink actually an amazing idea. Helps raise awareness for both the cause and the company and accelerates the revitalization of reefs. Also, it funds itself.
I love this! It’d get more involved and it’d be easier
You could honestly charge hundreds perk cookie like this, imagine the draw of being able to say that your name is on a reef, and imagine repeat visits to see how your coral is doint
we selling bricks and pews
This such a great idea to sustain restoration projects. It is pretty hard to rely solely from grants. One thing that caught my attention right at the start of the video is how flat the island is and how thin the trees are. As the video ends, it explained why the terrain looked as such.
Like you said grants are difficult to rely on, this is because we don’t give them out to people looking for personal benefit. He’ll have to prove he’s benefited little to none through an audit.
@@Alex-ih9lc Australian Coral reef was bleaching and in danger of dying 2 years ago. A few hundred people got a 100 million dollar grant and wow you'd never believe it! Last week the reef Is doing better than ever! Amazing what money can do instantly with all that money for a "study" that did not implement changes to human interaction with the reef
@@Kevenant Australian coral reefs would be doing even better if they weren't being sold to aquriam companies overseas
"Who wants to be a coral farmer when they grow up" . If i knew about this... a decade ago. I might would have. What a wonderfull job you guys are doing.
You can choose to do this as your hobby, look into saltwater coral keeping it’s an amazing hobby and it’s brought so much to my life
I really appreciate this video. It has inspired me in a number of ways; even beyond the scientific innovation involved. I am a research professor at the University for International Cooperation in Costa Rica; focusing on our "Costa Rica Regenerativa" project, which also includes marine regeneration. I am so happy that TH-cam suggested this video for me!
Fortunately, Mel, the corals aren't in danger of dying out soon as this video falsely asserts. Plesae do research before making decisions.
This video does not tell the truth about the matter, Mel.
Here is the truth:
Peter Ridd: Record coral cover of Great Barrier Reef shames climate alarmists
The Australian, 23 July 2021
The annual data on coral cover for the Great Barrier Reef, produced by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, was released on Monday showing the amount of coral on the reef is at record high levels. Record high, despite all the doom stories by our reef science and management institutions.
This data series, which started in 1985, is taken from the Australian Institute of Marine Science yearly long term monitoring of the Reef. Source: Peter Ridd
Like all other data on the reef, this shows it is in robust health. For example, coral growth rates have, if anything, increased over the past 100 years and measurements of farm pesticides reaching the reef show levels so low that they cannot be detected with the most ultra-sensitive equipment.
Biologists: its called Artificial Selection
Marketing team: HACKING EVOLUTION
I'm studying marine biology and i'm particularly interested in coral reef research, but I'm curious about one part of this, the "training" of the coral polyps.
My understanding is that the zooxenthalae symbiont changes depending on the water temperature because different zooxenthalae have different tolerance threshholds. The coral bleach and die when that temperature gets too high and there are no zooxenthalae present that can tolerate the temperature.
So I'm kind of confused how this training period can effect that symbiotic relationship because ultimately the survivability depends on the zooxenthalae symbionts available when the coral is planted in the ocean.
Could it help train the coral polyp to buffer the symbionts over a wider range of conditions?
I'm just going by the video, but it sounds like their approach is twofold:
1. When 80% of a reef dies, they select coral polyps to "farm" from the 20% that survived due to greater heat tolerance, and
2. By exposing them to repeated stresses they see which samples are most resilient. Those samples are then mated with each other to produce the most stress resilient stock with the highest tolerance to heat.
My guess is that "training" isn't teaching the coral anything, it's done to expose any hidden weaknesses so those samples can be removed from the breeding stock.
more than training looks like a breeding selection to keep the more resilient ones
It's just like captive bred corals if you've ever had a reef tank. Back in the day the mariculture corals and especially any of them that used to be plucked off wild reefs would die way easier than one propagated in captivity. The ones in captivity have handled more abuse and are just more durable. (Hence just another reason to buy your corals cultured in captivity!) These guys probably selected polyps that lived through some bleaching events and decided to grow those since they were inherently.more durable.
Tldr: bleaching doesn't kill the zooxanthellae it's just the expulsion of it by the coral. More durable corals are less likely to do that.
I not marine biologist, but this coral Training sounds like things snake oil sellers will say.
This video really sucked me and my husband in! I never knew this about coral, its bleak future or how amazing it is. Really appreciate who comes together to try and save humans from themselves!
Glad you liked it! The first four words of your comment got us worried for a sec 😉
Organic, Coral doesn't have a bleak future. Don't believe all the random stuff you see on the net.
this conscious capitalism bull is a cult at best and it will never be anything but a symbolic gesture. its the same as banning plastic straws and plastic grocery bags when every item in the store still wrapped in plastic, its nothing in the long run.
Its unbelievable what wealth healthy ecosystems provide us. E.g. healthy soil is responsible for all of our food crops. It makes total sense to pay for using these assets / get paid keeping them healthy and restoring them. Great work!
Very hard to do under capitalism, but still possible.
@@BossOfAllTrades sad but true, its the most capitalistic thing possible...
@@BossOfAllTrades no its really not, if all the socialist fucks actually pooled their resources to good causes like this instead of complaining to each other on the internet about muh revolution then they could acheive what they actually want without murdering 50 million people in the process
0:40 "Over 90% of the reefs of the world are projected to die". With a whopper lie like that up front, what's the point of watching this video? Where's the objectivity?
@@earlysda How comes that this is a lie? Do you have sources?
Being From The Bahamas this is truly amazing. MORE TO COME !
Cheers, hope you get to visit someday!
This is so amazing. This is the stuff that should be all over the news.
yes!
Facts. Imagine the difference that could be made if just our media changed their habits of sharing news that could help change our world for the better rather than news that creates division and preys on peoples fears.
So glad you liked it! That's exactly our goal--to be the news that covers the great projects happening all the time and end up being far more impactful than the (much more covered) dramatic story of the day.
@@envixousenvixous5411 yeah, state of news media now it just sad..
ett, you do realize this video is fake news, don't you?
I love the approach they’re taking, they saw how previous efforts for restoration hadn’t worked and made a change! I think this will work out much better
It's honestly kinda unsettling how restoration projects like these are only funded if people have something to gain from it and not just because it's the right thing to do
"just because it's the right thing to do" won't generate enough money to be capable of restoration. The real world requires money to get things done, and selling restoration as a business is an efficient way of restoring without relying on charity
oh no :(
you wanna pay for it?
It’s honestly staggering how many things get abandoned, no matter how much good they do, because of the incentives to only do things for profit.
..Is what I would say, but big number going up! Big number good.
That’s chapitalism babbbbbyyyyyy
This guy's a beast, Would love to join this team in the future
Possibly the best encapsulation of the race to save reefs that I’ve seen. Beautifully done! You’ve set a high bar
I really want to thank you so much for your work! As a child I lived in the Abaco Island in the Bahamas. I saw pictures of the destruction from Hurricane Durian, and was and still am upset by the destruction it caused. I cried for two days as what I learned from living there has had a lasting effect on my life in a good way. I am so pleased you were able to rebuild, and are contributing to the betterment of our world by reducing the effects of Global climate change. Thank you! And you gave me hope that rebuilding down there is taking place. It is amazing you were able to cause the growth rate of corral reefs to rejuvenate so fast. Again, thank you! You have made what has been an awful two to three years (due to multiple causes like Covid, climate change, some personal stuff, and loss) a more hopeful one! Keep up the good work and your positive approach!
Amazing. Love this. We should however also be talking about how the fishing industry and its nets is ripping up coral every second. But amazing to see projects like thos
In the Bahamas fishing is actually heavily restricted on for coast proximity to prevent that so it’s a risk just not a likely one
The opening makes this sound like they're creating coral super-weeds.
This is so incredibly inspiring, amazing to see humans coming together to save our planets beautiful nature
This is a brilliant way to do things. People who are in environmental restoration and ecosystem protection always taut that "this ecosystem is truly worth (X) amount of dollars" or "if we preserve this area, (Y) amount of damages will be prevented annualy." And then they go and ask for grant money, form non-profits, etc, which leads to burnout from constant campaigning as well as reduced impact of meaning as they aren't advertising their actions as an incredibly valuable service, which they are. This approach makes more sense as you can sell companies on your ideas in order to secure funding for restoration. Business runs the world, so it's logical to approach for-profit businesses as a for-profit business that provides value for money.
This is so interesting! I'm currently writing my thesis about coral reef restoration, I'd love to find out more and possibly join you guys after I'm done with my study!!
Starlight, be aware that the corals are not in danger of dying out any time soon.
@@earlysda do you live under a rock? i invite you to read maybe 3 scientific sources, they are definitely dying. the quicker we take action right now the more coral we can save. just because you personally don't see them dying doesn't mean it isn't happening.
@@starlight444 Hello Starlight, here are some observed facts to help you understand the truth about coral health:
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"Peter Ridd: Record coral cover of Great Barrier Reef shames climate alarmists
The Australian, 23 July 2021
The annual data on coral cover for the Great Barrier Reef, produced by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, was released on Monday showing the amount of coral on the reef is at record high levels. Record high, despite all the doom stories by our reef science and management institutions.
This data series, which started in 1985, is taken from the Australian Institute of Marine Science yearly long term monitoring of the Reef. Source: Peter Ridd
Like all other data on the reef, this shows it is in robust health. For example, coral growth rates have, if anything, increased over the past 100 years and measurements of farm pesticides reaching the reef show levels so low that they cannot be detected with the most ultra-sensitive equipment."
@@earlysda how do you know that? What about all the scientists saying that coral reefs are dying out at a faster rate then ever before?
@@floranse5205 Fioranse, I know that the Great Barrier Reef is at an all time record growth because I keep up with factual data, not what the consensus says.
Im tryin to help on this in Costa Rica, thanks for sharing, as a product designer i would love to create design with purpose, and im learning that with this content. Thanks a lot for ur jobs guys!
On tourism based islands the 2020 Covid lock downs proved very effective at growing coral, coral was growing in dead reef areas at a rate scientists weren't used to. Because it wasn't being disturbed and polluted.
We think we have everything figured out
Very inspiring! Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Surprised no one has tried genetically engineering a coral to survive in harsh oceans. Even if it's a couple traits to give it an edge against predators or the environment.
Don’t you just love how people continue to see that every human reaction to fix something we create a bigger problem.
This will be the next invasive sea life issue.
Currently, just any more coral would be better than what we have.
That’s a theory perpetuated by those who benefit from the status quo.
Awesome job guys, keep at it, i have a question, i am doing research on precious.corals (corallium rubrum, elatius, ..etc) also hawaiian deep sea gold corals ( Gerardia that grows from 300m to 600m) , is it possible to try and grow deep sea precious corals as you are doing here?
I'm not an expert in this domain but I'd suggest contacting local ecologists for the same
You guys and the people like you are the real heroes of our society
Great work to restore corals , i think it is possible ,however global warming due to modern civilizations can make this effort mor and more challenging. Keep it up ,best of luck 🤞
1:39 "We basically take them to the gym."
Me: *gets a vision of Chad Corals*
I had an idea to breed faster growing and more oxygen productive trees to mitigate climate change, but speeding the evolution of corals to insure their survival is brilliant!!
These guys will be among the many eco-scientists who save the world. Let their names not be forgotten.
Those things just amaze me, we basically helping coral to evolve to more harsh world that we ourselves created
Human arrogance regardind its hability to subdue nature to its will never ceases to amaze me.
I live in Freeport Grand Bahama and I never know we had a coral reef farm, now I wan go there with my family
As important as the bees and the butterflies, plant to help them!
damn great sound design. they need a raise!
u guys are future of saving our oceans...amazing work
Love to see it 👏🏼
Wow. This person is a visionary. I am so sorry for the hurricane that destroyed everything...
I love what y’all are doing very inspirational my heart thank you
What is the difference between assisted evolution versus selective breeding.
Prove the value and the money will come. This is what most of our resources should go towards. Not towards driving captitalist Ego growth. Restore our planet! You know, the one we all share together. The one that feeds and sustains our planet. I love seeing updates on Coral Vita. For profit is a good move and helps insure the project grows and continues versus flatlining or hitting a plateau.
Well done team. I hope you will share your knowledge with us here in Malaysia specifically Sabah, Malaysian Borneo , which most of our coral reef been wiped out because of illegal fish bombing and cyanide fishing by the philippine's sulu and bajau sulu (illegal immigrant)
yes but no good if the sea keeps getting hotter!
You didn't watch the documentary.
There will be seas in the Metaverse don't even worry about the analogue sea
Awesome now point me in the direction of an organization that replants forests so I can sign up.
Love this video! ❤️
Profitability is sustainability.
Love it can they plant sea weed's the same
Money what destroys the world and also the same thing that can saves the world.
This man knows it so well
These guys get the picture! Love it!!! ❤
Its not about " better " it's about predicting the future environment and trying to engineer something that can survive in it . If it changes to fast to adapt, genetic engineering can improve the adaption speed . You can't beat the environment. You can control it , or adapt to it . Survival is not easy .
Great work guys, it's really fasinating and looks something from future!
I live in Dominican Republic on the south side of Barahona. Id love to sponsor a program setting there. Is this possible, do u have availability to expand that way?
I wish them success + hope there are more like them around the world
I need that underwater drill
So... How is this different from selective breeding?
This is so beautiful.
I’ve seen this movie before. I’m pretty sure the zombies show up in the next scene. New movie idea…aquatic zombie fish that come on land.
Monetizing coral restoration might actually get the greedy monster humans on board for once.
imagine coral that grows as fast as bamboo destroying the world's oceans.
9:15 end quote
Imagine growing coral illegally 💀
Well done. I don't care if they are doing this as for-profit. At the end of the day they are contributing positive change to the environment and that's what matters the most.
I'm curious, so we know certain parts of the ocean are getting warmer, about .1 degrees celsius every 10 to 12 years. I'm wondering if like every few thousand years when this happens if this time will be the same, some corals die, but the other aquatic life that benefits will once again be abundant. If we were living 8 thousand years ago and there was no corals but there were beautiful plants and other sea life then the ocean gets colder, would we try to stop that? I think earth needs to do its thing without human intervention, let nature do its thing and watch what happens. Unfortunately the time it will take for the coral to die out will be so long no one will remember what it was other then the scientists trying to keep it from coming back because of how devastating it will be to the future oceans ecosystem.
Dude, videos like this here and Upisnotjumps collab with Hbomberguy?
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You are missing the main danger of climate change.. it is happening unnaturally fast so nature doesn't have an opportunity to adapt.
These temperature changes should be happening over thousands (if not millions) of years. Not decades!
@@slevinchannel7589 you're either a bot or a stupid advertiser on a video that isn't related to that.
Pls go here in Philippines and help restore our corals.... We badly needed you.
Honestly, people need to just accept that we are this earth's stewards. The whole world is our garden, we can let it run wild and hope things work out or we can proactively plant and weed as we see fit.
Hopefully the devs don't patch this glitch
I think this is a good case study if for profits work better then non profit when it comes to saving the environment
Wish the world would actually get on board with restoring our planet. Without it, we wouldnt be here
Can/do you use the galvanic augmentation of latval settling and/or mineral deposition e.g.
"STUDIES ON GROWTH-NETS OF REEF-BUILDING CORALS BY GALVANIC METHOD FOR CORALS (GMC)" KIHARA et al, January 2018
Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser B3 (Ocean Engineering)
and
"Growth and survival of coral transplants with and without electrochemical deposition of CaCO3", Sabater et al, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Volume 272, Issue 2, 24 June 2002, Pages 131-146
Instead of water jet cutting it can't u just blend it up. Works with moss
is there a potential for a super resistant variant to become an invasive species that will take over other marine ecosystems?
This what our great superhero The Deep hope for
Fantastic idea ,scientists of the world research ,and investment in this field ,Goverments help the reefs for people ,and sea crautures a like .
If you know Lionfish, Crown of Thorn Starfish and any coral eaters are a threat to the environment so I know some one them think it’s a bad approach..but we don’t know how long these corals not gonna last with these critters grow.
I hope this company succeeds and becomes more and more profitable so it is a positive feedback loop
So I glad they are doing this, because more coral reefs is cool, and just better. . But the alarmist stuff about all the reefs dying by X year has been going on for a very long time, and has never been correct at all.
Quick let’s abuse this to regrow before they start patching this
I do the same thing with my crayfish (assisted evolution) making them stronger to live in harder conditions as a form of renewable food sources
Hi..What is the difference between assisted evolution versus selective breeding.
@@DadanHamdaniTop from what iv gathered
Assisted evolution is exposing organims to stressful situations that helps increase their resistance over time, when these resilient organims are “created” they are than breed with others to make their next generation stronger and less effected by changes in the environment
Selective breeding is selecting organims with better traits to get an offering that has the desirable traits u bred them for.
Essential selective breeding is used in assisted evolution to pass on resistant genes to future offspring
Go coral!
they should use genetic modification aswell to make the coral resistant to the climate
Seems an intro for a Coral invasion
And so people had faith in humanity.
Tents on the beach no. get something more inland?
I couldnt help laugh when they did the "Everything Is Gone" screen
Where do I sign up ?
I hope you have a diversity in types of corals
Keep up the fight!
This is amazing and should team up with ocean clean up
Humn, how about opening a funeral service that uses my skull and bone frame to grow coral and then throw it down to the reef? (I guess my calcium deposit can help them grow quicker eh?)
Seems like a great model - good luck!!!
WE NEED A CORAL BANK
WHY IS NOBODY TALKIN ABOUT THESE?? THESE TYPES OF STARTUPS SHOULD FLOOD SILICON VALLEY?!!
Why dont u come to seychelles we need u to restore our reef
2030: Attack of the Super Corals grosses US$20billion in cinemas worldwide.
I've long been skeptical of the need to worry TOO much about the survival of coral ecosystems in the wake of rapid climate change. (We should be far more worried about slowly-reproducing keystone species, frankly...)
ANY species (like corals) that reproduce regularly by sexual means in enormous numbers is inherently more likely to adapt (to rising temperatures and acidification, in the case of corals) as rapidly as required to keep ahead of even rapid environmental changes (i.e. that can be measured in centuries or even decades).
Bleaching events are an inevitable part of the relatively intense selection pressures posed by climate change. Those heat- and acid-resistant coral nymphs (and their photosynthesizing symbionts) that survive such events and find themselves landing on bleached coral beds (or other suitable substrates) form the basis for coral ecosystem rebounds of the sort that we've already started seeing here and there.
I'm not against human-assisted adaptation, but frankly the scale of what's actually possible here is miniscule compared to the scale of these ecosystems globally.
Far better to mitigate/prevent global warming, of course, than to play up feeble attempts at human-assisted adaptation...
Why don’t we stop doing what we’re doing to CAUSE the problem in the first place? Whenever we put “fixes” like bandaids over the problem we end up screwing things up with unintended side effects.
does it work?
09:31 Material scientists.