(1st UPDATE) Scientists are hopeful that mass larval reseeding would pave the way for large-scale restoration of coral reefs
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The coral site at the Hundred Islands National Park only followed Dela Cruz’s pioneering work in a project led by renowned coral ecologist Peter Harrison. These eggs and sperms are then cultured in a hatchery in their laboratory in Bolinao, Pangasinan. The larvae are released back into the sea and on the degraded reefs through fine-mesh nets. It would take years before the tables of corals on shallow waters appear.
For years, scientists have been working on different restoration techniques as corals bleach and reefs degrade. The predominant technique still used in coral restoration is asexual or fragmentation, where a small part of the coral is transplanted on reefs. Before that, people were building artificial reefs.“All the scientists now are agreeing that mass larval enhancement method is in the forefront now of coral restoration,” said Dela Cruz.
Harrison believed that mass larval reseeding could increase genetic diversity, make corals more resilient against rising temperatures, and widen the scope of restoration.This became the subject of Dela Cruz’s dissertation at Southern Cross University, where Harrison served as the director of the Marine Ecology Research Center. The Australian government funded the study through the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research .
After the success in Magsaysay, scientists ventured to rehabilitate corals at the Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos. About 18 million diverse coral larvae collected from Magsaysay Reef were released in Quezon Island in 2020. Dela Cruz said they currently have experiments in seven islands of the national park.“We saw that the ecosystem came alive because of the coral restoration project,” Celeste told reporters after a visit to the site.
The team’s expansion to other parts in the Philippines not only restores corals, but trains academics from nearby schools to manage the rehabilitation themselves.
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