What Efforts to Preserve this Ecosystem are Underway?
- Repair of damaged reefs
- Artificial reef creation
- Rearing coral seedlings in a nursery to a size where they can be outplanted to recieving sites
- Transplantation of the seedlings to degraded reef areas
- Establishment of coral nursuries that can supply large numbers of corals of a size that can survie and grow at the site to be rehabilitated
- Coral transplantation