https://archive.ph/DTQKa
"The most astonishing and heartening coral rebirth the world has ever seen came
to light recently.
To understand how it happened, you have to go back to April 2009.
That’s when I assembled and led a team of young, passionate marine biologists
on our first expedition to the remote and uninhabited southern Line Islands,
which belong to Kiribati, in the central Pacific. The five islands are the tips
of ancient volcanoes that rose to the surface between 85 million and 70 million
years ago, forming an underwater mountain ridge that crosses the Equator—the
“line” in their name.
Our goal was to conduct the first scientific surveys of marine life around the
islands. We knew almost nothing about this archipelago. It took us longer to
get there by plane and ship than it took the Apollo astronauts to reach the
moon. On ocean maps, the water around the islands was a featureless blue. We
didn’t know what we were going to find under the surface.
What we found was paradise: reefs untouched by humans, with a thriving coral
jungle full of large fish. Sharks and other top predators were so abundant that
their total biomass outweighed that of their prey. On every dive we saw
endangered species—such as the enormous Napoleon wrasse, up to six feet long.
The southern Line Islands changed our understanding of coral reefs. Scientists
like me had no idea what pristine reefs looked like."
Via
Future Crunch Oct 28, 2022
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
