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Day 3 – Good News and Bad News

Wednesday’s ReefCheck confirmed what we had been afraid of :

A lot of the shallow branching corals in the tabu area died from coral bleaching after weeks of hot water temperatures in February 2014.

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Day 3 – Good News and Bad News

Day 3 - Good News and Bad News

Day 3 – Good News and Bad News

The good news is that because we have been monitoring this reef for so long ,we have seen this before ,and learn that the corals will grow back in a year or two.

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Also more good news because of the lack of branching coral food, the Crown of thorns starfish which have been attacking the reef , are starting to die back.

Nb: Bula is Fijian for Crown of thorn

 

GreenGeeks

Comments

  1. Naushad Yakub says

    Its great to see that such small monitoring are showing results that are simple and easy to understand. Good to hear the Crown of Thorns are dying back. This is some great work that you have been doing for more than 10 years.

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