Florida Aquarium Tampa Achieves Major Breakthrough to Save Atlantic Coral

Photo via the Florida Aquarium

For the first time in a laboratory, The Florida Aquarium in Tampa has taken a major conservation step by replicating coral for two days in a row.

In partnership with the Horniman Museum and Gardens in London, this ambitious program is called Project Coral and aims to create coral laps in a laboratory, which could eventually help repopulate the nearly extinct pillar coral of the Florida Reef Tract.

"It's just exciting to be the first to make a breakthrough in the world," said Roger Germann, CEO of Florida, CNN. "Our expert team has deciphered the code … that gives hope to coral in the Florida Reef Tract and Coral in the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean."

The project, which uses advanced LED technology to help signals to reproduce, started in 2014 with special attention to Staghorn Coral. Since then, it has become a pillar coral, now that the species is classified as nearly extinct.

Since the creation of a spawning for Atlantic corals has never been achieved, this week's breakthrough in The Florida Aquarium The Apollo Beach Conservation Center is a rare sign of hope for the American reef "America's Barrier Reef", located off the coast of the Florida Keys. suffered greatly from whitening events.

"The Coral project is" groundbreaking, "said Scott Graves, director of the Center for Conservation's Florida Aquarium. Florida Reef. "

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