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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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
"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.
If this kind of effort was spread throughout every ecosystem and microbiome we could create our own Eden here on Earth. We are the caretakers of this planet, we need to start acting like it. We as humans are in a beautiful position on this planet. We have the ability to share and build upon eons of knowledge and use it in a wholesome way that benefits everything from the microbes in the soil, at the bottom of the ocean to all the species roaming the surface and skies.
Won't happen as long as we see ourselves as separate from nature or higher than animals. Human nature is restrained to create civilization, civilization is a fight against nature and the natural world.
@@elinope4745 civilization doesn't have to work against nature, I honestly believe we can live with advanced technology and nature in harmony but I also feel that requires people to lessen their desires for individual possessions.
@@Frenchiezy I disagree. Civilization is a limitation of human nature at its bare minimum. Civilization necessarily fights against nature. It is fundamental.
I'm a scientist and I would NOT trust fellow scientists, nor myself, with modifying our ecosystem... We have a proven history of not caring for the environment and people, and for making mistakes.
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
Since the 1980s, scientists have studied whether adding iron to the oceans might represent a relatively simple and inexpensive solution to climate change. The idea is that adding iron would encourage the growth of carbon-munching marine phytoplankton that would pull carbon out of the atmosphere on a global scale
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
It'll definitely be important to monitor it for unintended consequences. We are in a tough situation where we're facing the loss of not just corals, but all the species and livelihoods that depend on them. A really difficult question in this age is weighing the risks of action, which always exist in some form, with the risks of inaction that we see before us. A real-life version of the trolley problem, but even trickier.
Whenever you try to artificially intervene in the eco system you're not helping nature. Africanized killer bees was a perfect example. One of these days these unwise scientists will end up doing irreversible damage to the world.
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!
@@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?
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.
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 depressing to look at a dead coral reef. Everything is so grey and dull in comparison to those alive. Fully knowing how important our ecosystem supports us in every aspect of life, yet humans still find more new ways to destroy it.
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 🤞
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
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.
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!
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.
They should team up with Greenwave and/or Ocean Arks International. Both of those orgs use selected communities of organisms (e.g. mussels, sea kelp, etc.) to purify sea water while producing crops and ocean "livestock." Such partnerships might extend the range of areas where they can restore reefs (by restoring the "bad" water they can't otherwise grow reefs in).
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!
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
When I was a kid I was told the great barrier reef would be gone by now. It's the largest on record as measured from space this year. Now, some reefs are in trouble from pollutants that 3rd world countries dump into the water.
Yeah, they try to blame "climate change" but it's a load of crap. The problem is third world countries and China polluting the ocean with trash. Leftists will always shoehorn propaganda into everything though.
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.
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!!
@@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: . "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."
@@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.
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.
This would be microevolution, the inherent ability of an organism to modify itself based on the DNA that already exists within its cells. What it is not is macroevolution, the ability of an organism to change into a completely different organism. In short, you began with a coral and ended up with a coral. Dog, cat and livestock breeders have been doing this for centuries. It's not exactly news.
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!
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.
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?
Great program! We need to dramatically scale it up and have more similar programs to help forests and animal species. We are at a point we must consider all restoration ideas that do not present a risk to nature, like the ridiculous and dangerous idea of spraying the upper atmosphere with minerals and chemicals to reduce UV and heat damage.
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!!
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.
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 .
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)
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
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?
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.
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.
There's some study that coral prefer to eat plastics more than fish. But it's what can kill them because of the bacteria in plastics. So... Is it possible to create a coral that is resistant to bacteria? Possibly make a bath and introducing easily overcome that bacteria n add more powerful bacteria to grow their immunity to fight against bacteria in plastics.
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'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.
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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!
@@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
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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.
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
"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
If this kind of effort was spread throughout every ecosystem and microbiome we could create our own Eden here on Earth. We are the caretakers of this planet, we need to start acting like it. We as humans are in a beautiful position on this planet. We have the ability to share and build upon eons of knowledge and use it in a wholesome way that benefits everything from the microbes in the soil, at the bottom of the ocean to all the species roaming the surface and skies.
I really like this
Won't happen as long as we see ourselves as separate from nature or higher than animals. Human nature is restrained to create civilization, civilization is a fight against nature and the natural world.
@@elinope4745 civilization doesn't have to work against nature, I honestly believe we can live with advanced technology and nature in harmony but I also feel that requires people to lessen their desires for individual possessions.
@@Frenchiezy I disagree. Civilization is a limitation of human nature at its bare minimum. Civilization necessarily fights against nature. It is fundamental.
I'm a scientist and I would NOT trust fellow scientists, nor myself, with modifying our ecosystem... We have a proven history of not caring for the environment and people, and for making mistakes.
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
@@EckzoTheFirst Australian coral reefs would be doing even better if they weren't being sold to aquriam companies overseas
Since the 1980s, scientists have studied whether adding iron to the oceans might represent a relatively simple and inexpensive solution to climate change. The idea is that adding iron would encourage the growth of carbon-munching marine phytoplankton that would pull carbon out of the atmosphere on a global scale
Yes, we just did a video on this! th-cam.com/video/i4Hnv_ZJSQY/w-d-xo.html
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.
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.
Love it. More on this.
As long as it can help nature and not have bad side effects..
It is going to reduce biodiversity of corals but this is our only option.
It'll definitely be important to monitor it for unintended consequences. We are in a tough situation where we're facing the loss of not just corals, but all the species and livelihoods that depend on them. A really difficult question in this age is weighing the risks of action, which always exist in some form, with the risks of inaction that we see before us. A real-life version of the trolley problem, but even trickier.
bad sıde effects would be seen ın huundreds of years
It's ok bro I am Aquaman
Whenever you try to artificially intervene in the eco system you're not helping nature. Africanized killer bees was a perfect example. One of these days these unwise scientists will end up doing irreversible damage to the world.
Biologists: its called Artificial Selection
Marketing team: HACKING EVOLUTION
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!
Possibly the best encapsulation of the race to save reefs that I’ve seen. Beautifully done! You’ve set a high bar
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 depressing to look at a dead coral reef. Everything is so grey and dull in comparison to those alive. Fully knowing how important our ecosystem supports us in every aspect of life, yet humans still find more new ways to destroy it.
"I want to be just like her when I grow up" - You have inspired that little girl
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 🤞
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
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!
This guy's a beast, Would love to join this team in the future
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.
They should team up with Greenwave and/or Ocean Arks International. Both of those orgs use selected communities of organisms (e.g. mussels, sea kelp, etc.) to purify sea water while producing crops and ocean "livestock." Such partnerships might extend the range of areas where they can restore reefs (by restoring the "bad" water they can't otherwise grow reefs in).
U can scuba dive, grow corals, helpin ecosystem, gain tourists attractions, AND earn money. I see that as a massive win
This is so incredibly inspiring, amazing to see humans coming together to save our planets beautiful nature
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!
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
When I was a kid I was told the great barrier reef would be gone by now. It's the largest on record as measured from space this year. Now, some reefs are in trouble from pollutants that 3rd world countries dump into the water.
Yeah, they try to blame "climate change" but it's a load of crap. The problem is third world countries and China polluting the ocean with trash. Leftists will always shoehorn propaganda into everything though.
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
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.
Hope you can keep this going!
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.
This would be microevolution, the inherent ability of an organism to modify itself based on the DNA that already exists within its cells. What it is not is macroevolution, the ability of an organism to change into a completely different organism. In short, you began with a coral and ended up with a coral. Dog, cat and livestock breeders have been doing this for centuries. It's not exactly news.
“Not exactly news” bruh this is a new an exciting application that not a lot of people know about, this is absolutely “news”
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!
Very inspiring! Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
You guys and the people like you are the real heroes of our society
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
These guys will be among the many eco-scientists who save the world. Let their names not be forgotten.
Great program! We need to dramatically scale it up and have more similar programs to help forests and animal species. We are at a point we must consider all restoration ideas that do not present a risk to nature, like the ridiculous and dangerous idea of spraying the upper atmosphere with minerals and chemicals to reduce UV and heat damage.
The opening makes this sound like they're creating coral super-weeds.
This is something that should be fully paid for by the government.
is there availability for this program in south Dominican republic?
how are we at the stage where we can do this but we cant make sure thiere isnt any sauce on my god dam McChicken burger
Excellent work. I wish you have absolute success.
I love what y’all are doing very inspirational my heart thank you
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!!
Those things just amaze me, we basically helping coral to evolve to more harsh world that we ourselves created
Love to see it 👏🏼
Human arrogance regardind its hability to subdue nature to its will never ceases to amaze me.
damn great sound design. they need a raise!
300 years later scientist belike: I make corals that shoot 50 cal to defend it self.
These guys get the picture! Love it!!! ❤
amazing work!!
Great work guys, it's really fasinating and looks something from future!
u guys are future of saving our oceans...amazing work
Profitability is sustainability.
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.
What is the difference between assisted evolution versus selective breeding.
If all the corals will be gone, explain why today the Great Barrier Reef has record coral coverage since records started being kept in the 80's
Wow. This person is a visionary. I am so sorry for the hurricane that destroyed everything...
It's amazing how much coral is like fungi despite them being animals that are closer related to us.
I live in Freeport Grand Bahama and I never know we had a coral reef farm, now I wan go there with my family
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 .
Love this video! ❤️
Love it can they plant sea weed's the same
1:39 "We basically take them to the gym."
Me: *gets a vision of Chad Corals*
Where do I sign up ?
does it work?
This will surely have no negative consequences, it's not like thousands of species of coral compete
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)
As important as the bees and the butterflies, plant to help them!
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
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?
this is the background story of Eureka Seven
I wish them success + hope there are more like them around the world
I hope this company succeeds and becomes more and more profitable so it is a positive feedback loop
is there a potential for a super resistant variant to become an invasive species that will take over other marine ecosystems?
I love this so much!
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.
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.
Money what destroys the world and also the same thing that can saves the world.
This man knows it so well
Fantastic idea ,scientists of the world research ,and investment in this field ,Goverments help the reefs for people ,and sea crautures a like .
Awesome now point me in the direction of an organization that replants forests so I can sign up.
There's some study that coral prefer to eat plastics more than fish. But it's what can kill them because of the bacteria in plastics. So... Is it possible to create a coral that is resistant to bacteria? Possibly make a bath and introducing easily overcome that bacteria n add more powerful bacteria to grow their immunity to fight against bacteria in plastics.
This is so beautiful.
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.
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
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.
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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.
I hope that they open up a branch in eastern Australia and start helping the Great Barrier Reef. That place desperately needs the help.
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
I rather have a for profit coral farm that helps then a non profit who has to close down because of money.
Dude, videos like this here and Upisnotjumps collab with Hbomberguy?
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can someone explain to me why they're using only woods and papers for a building in a place frequent with hurricanes? that seems crazy
May I know what resort is this? @3:54
So... How is this different from selective breeding?
I think this is a good case study if for profits work better then non profit when it comes to saving the environment
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.
Wish the world would actually get on board with restoring our planet. Without it, we wouldnt be here
Seems like a great model - good luck!!!