Sentences with phrase «endangered elkhorn»

The film will also describe a coral propagation effort pursued by the Secore Foundation, Carmabi Foundation and Curaçao Sea Aquarium — in particular the work of Valérie F. Chamberland, a biologist who has spent nearly five years cultivating extremely endangered elkhorn coral in tanks and cementing them on boulders just offshore.

One - year - old colonies of endangered elkhorn coral grown in an aquarium were cemented to boulders along the Curacao coast in August, 2012.

Not exact matches

Two Atlantic Ocean coral species — elkhorn and staghorn — are listed as «threatened» under the Endangered Species Act, and NOAA is considering whether an additional 82 coral species also warrant some level of protection under the law because of threats from warming water, ocean acidification and pollution.

Carne and her research team collected broken pieces of elkhorn and staghorn corals — critically endangered and nearly 98 percent wiped out — from the healthy reefs and moved them to eight coral nurseries.

An international team of researchers recently bred elkhorn corals (Acropora palamata) in a laboratory setting, to be used to repopulate critically endangered Caribbean reefs.

Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.

In addition, we are proposing that two Caribbean species — elkhorn and staghorn corals — already listed under the ESA be reclassified from threatened to endangered.

In 2006 the Center secured protection for staghorn and elkhorn corals; today these corals were also proposed for reclassification, from «threatened» to «endangered.»

• Won the first Endangered Species Act listing for global warming - threatened species — the staghorn and elkhorn corals found off the Florida coast.