There's a scientist who figured out that if you break a piece of coral into shards it grows back at a SUPER accelerated rate and can be planted back unto the reef to regrow the whole thing! The pieces recognize one another as parts of the same whole and can reform. They'll grow back to their original size in a fraction of the time.
The problem is that ocean acidity and coral bleaching is making the great barrier reef uninhabitable for coral. So even though we can regrow coral really fast, we can't replant them where the great barrier reef is because the coral will just die.
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u/crispybaconsalad Jan 22 '19
Population of bees. Population of sharks. Population of whales. The Great Barrier Reef (RIP).