Watching, nurturing and documenting the growth and development of corals in a nursery – from a 5 cm fragment to a colony as big as a football – is truly rewarding for Nature Seychelles’ Reef Rescuers team. The nursery and all the work that goes into it is an essential part of the coral reef restoration process, helping prepare coral fragments for the reef. The nursery holds the team’s stock of precious coral fragments in mid-water on ropes, in perfect conditions for growth, until they are ready for transplanting to the reef. It takes between 10 and
12 months for corals to reach a suitable size for transplantation and so coral nursing is a continuous task.
Full story available here: Reef Rescuers. A decade of coral reef restoration in Seychelles