{"id":823628,"date":"2025-02-01T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/transplanting-healthy-corals-improves-damaged-reefs-health\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T12:12:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T18:12:02","slug":"transplanting-healthy-corals-improves-damaged-reefs-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/transplanting-healthy-corals-improves-damaged-reefs-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Transplanting Healthy Corals Improves Damaged Reef\u2019s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new study has shown that a novel method of transplanting healthy reef ecosystems<\/strong> to damaged reefs can produce astounding results.<\/p>\n

The results offer a glimmer of hope to many damaged reef ecosystems, which now could potentially be saved from terminal decline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new method is known as \u201ca coral reef ecosystem transplant<\/em>\u201d and involves transplanting a biomimetic terracotta tile that is embedded with a range of organisms ranging from microorganisms to Invertebrates. Corals from the damaged reef then latch onto these tiles. This has shown huge improvements in the health of damaged corals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the study\u2019s lead researcher Dr. Natalie Levy<\/strong>, from Bar-Ilan University\u2019s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis innovative approach underscores the critical role of healthy reef ecosystems in restoring coral health and resilience. The results highlight the potential of ecosystem transplantation as an effective, sustainable restoration tool that can be integrated with other coral restoration methods like coral gardening and artificial reefs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

While Prof. Oren Levy<\/strong>, also from Bar-Ilan University\u2019s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences added:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis research advances our understanding of coral restoration and provides an invaluable tool to help address the ongoing global coral crisis. By using healthy ecosystems to regenerate damaged reefs, we can work towards more resilient, sustainable coral ecosystems that may one day recover from climate change and other threats.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

You can find the original research here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

(Featured Image credit: Meron Segev)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Sam<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sam Helmy<\/a>https:\/\/www.deeperblue.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Sam Helmy is a TDI\/SDI Instructor Trainer, and PADI Staff and Trimix Instructor. Diving for 28 years, a dive pro for 14, I have traveled extensively chasing my passion for diving. I am passionate about everything diving, with a keen interest in exploration, Sharks and big stuff, Photography and Decompression theory. Diving is definitely the one and only passion that has stayed with me my whole life! Sam is a Staff Writer for DeeperBlue.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sam Helmy
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A new study has shown that a novel method of transplanting healthy reef ecosystems to damaged reefs can produce astounding results. The results offer a glimmer of hope to many damaged reef ecosystems, which now could potentially be saved from terminal decline.\u00a0 The new method is known as \u201ca coral reef ecosystem transplant\u201d and involves<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":823629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22531,141342],"tags":[14545,141341],"class_list":{"0":"post-823628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthy","8":"category-transplanting","9":"tag-healthy","10":"tag-transplanting"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}