The ocean's coral is in danger. Nearly half of them have been wiped out since 1950, and like any species in peril, corals are simply an indicator—any species could be next. But one man has a plan to save them, can he do it in time?
swimming through a bed of seagrass in northern Belize when she saw a hunk of elkhorn coral lying loose on the sandy bottom. She paused to look at it. With its rich amber color and antler-like branches, the fragment seemed alive despite having broken off from its mother colony.
For years, Carne and others in the coral restoration field struggled to attract major funding for their efforts. That appears to be changing. In 2020, the insurance company Swiss Re crafted a policy to pay out nearly $1 million to send teams of divers to stabilize and replant corals that had been ripped out by a hurricane along the shoreline near Cancún, Mexico.
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