Shock treatment for coral restoration
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If it is is good enough for mental patients, then by golly it is good enough for the world’s coral reefs! What in the world am I talking about? Electro-shock therapy of course! Yup, the BBC reports that there is a huge effort to re-grow coral reefs underway using the power that we so easily take for granted.
Marine biologist Tom Goreau knows coral. He has been diving among the reefs since before he could walk.
As the director of the Global Coral Reef Alliance, he is passionate about how extraordinary corals are.
“They’re very simple animals. They’re an animal that’s basically a gut with a ring of tentacles around it,” he said.
“And with their tentacles they catch zooplankton, little shrimp and animals swimming in the sea. And they eat animals, they don’t plants. And they can’t move, so that confuses people.
