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I was walking along the shore in Alaska, and I came across this tide pool filled with a colony of sea anemones, these wonderful eating machines, relatives of coral and jellyfish.
It doesn't try to produce a heath or a meadow or a rain forest or a kelp garden or a coral reef.
But this is very important for delicate environments, such as coral reefs.
"The Garden" "Oleander: coral from lipstick ads in the 50's.
In the next scene, you're going to see a nice coral bottom.
It's about seeing what's around that next coral head or what's around that next tree, and learning more not only about our environment but about ourselves.
We were studying all sorts of animals and critters, and they got closer and closer to us, and because of the luxury of time, these animals, these residents of the coral reef, were starting to get used to us, and these pelagics that normal travel through stopped.
And our scientists from FIU, MIT, and from Northeastern were able to get a gauge for what coral reefs do when we're not around.
And predator-prey behavior is an interesting thing, because as we take away some of the predators on these coral reefs around the world, the prey, or the forage fish, act very differently.
What we realized is not only do they stop taking care of the reef, darting in, grabbing a little bit of algae and going back into their homes, they start spreading out and disappearing from those particular coral reefs.
At 19, I won a research competition for my research on coral reefs, and I ended up speaking at the UN Convention of Biological Diversity, presenting this research.
If a grouper chases a fish into a crevice in the coral, it will sometimes go to where it knows a moray eel is sleeping and it will signal to the moray, "Follow me," and the moray will understand that signal.
These islands are entirely made up of coral atolls, and on average about two meters above sea level.
These jobs are also done by the plants, the animals and the ecosystems on our planet, including the ecosystems I study: the tropical coral reefs.
Coral reefs are farmers.
Coral reefs are security guards.
Coral reefs are chemists.
The molecules that we're discovering on coral reefs are increasingly important in the search for new antibiotics and new cancer drugs.
And coral reefs are artists.
So for all of these reasons, all of these ecosystem services, economists estimate the value of the world's coral reefs in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year.
And after this storm took off half of its tissue, it became infested with algae, the algae overgrew the tissue and that coral died.
Now, this is the part of the talk where you may expect me to launch into my plea for us to all save the coral reefs.
Whether I see it in a tweet, in a news headline or the glossy pages of a conservation brochure, that phrase bothers me, because we as conservationists have been sounding the alarms about the death of coral reefs for decades.
And yet, almost everyone I meet, no matter how educated, is not sure what a coral is or where they come from.
How would we get someone to care about the world's coral reefs when it's an abstract thing they can barely understand?
If they don't understand what a coral is or where it comes from, or how funny or interesting or beautiful it is, why would we expect them to care about saving them?
What is a coral and where does it come from?
They attach in the place they find most suitable, they build a skeleton underneath themselves, they build a mouth and tentacles, and then they begin the difficult work of building the world's coral reefs.
One coral polyp will divide itself again and again and again, leaving a limestone skeleton underneath itself and growing up toward the sun.
Scientists have studied in increasing detail the loss of the world's coral reefs, and they have documented with increasing certainty the causes.
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