{"id":824,"date":"2009-04-15T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T18:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2009-04-15T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T18:18:21","slug":"replanting-the-bluffs-of-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2009\/04\/15\/replanting-the-bluffs-of-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Replanting the bluffs of the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/15\/world\/asia\/15coral.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter img-fluid\" style=\"margin-top: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/04\/15\/world\/asia\/15coral.600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"234\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<\/p><blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u201cWe have been replanting forests for 4,000 years, but we are only just now learning how to revive a coral reef.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Mineo Okamoto is a marine biologist at the <a title=\"The university's Web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kaiyodai.ac.jp\/English\/index.html\">Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology<\/a>. He\u2019s one of the\u00a0 researchers leading the charge to restore Japan\u2019s coral reefs, which have suffered a reported 90 percent dieback in the last decade.\u00a0 Coral reefs worldwide are suffering, due mostly to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coral_bleaching\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bleaching <\/a>induced by warming waters and runoff from agriculture and industry. Among the many techniques being used to save the reefs is coral transplantation, a method that involves taking bits of healthy coral and replanting them on and around decimated reefs.<br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/15\/world\/asia\/15coral.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Times article<\/a> published yesterday describes the painstaking efforts of the Japanese government to restore its largest reef, near the southern end of the Okinawa archipelago. Initiated in 2005, the program has planted 13,000 pieces of coral and cost around $2 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">At first the, the effort showed little success. Only a third of the replanted corals in Japan\u2019s Sekisei Lagoon have survived, falling victim to typhoon- force waves and coral bleaching.\u00a0 But new technologies are brightening the picture: Okamato and others developed ceramic stands for the corals to root in as they grow, and divers now plant young corals in areas more protected from waves. Both of these techniques have begun to improve coral recruitment and survivorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/15\/world\/asia\/15coral.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> to find out more about the labor-intensive effort, the Environment Ministry\u2019s political stake and the \u201cfriendly race\u201d among scientists to develop the best coral transplanting technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"color: #888888\">Photo credit: Ko Sasaki for The New York Times<\/span><br>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have been replanting forests for 4,000 years, but we are only just now learning how to revive a coral reef.\u201d Mineo Okamoto is a marine biologist at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. He\u2019s one of the\u00a0 researchers leading the charge to restore Japan\u2019s coral reefs, which have suffered a reported 90 percent dieback in the last&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[7,217,218],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-ecology-in-policy","tag-conservation","tag-coral-reefs","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}