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TNC's idea is to restructure this debt, to generate the funds and political will to protect reefs, mangroves and fisheries.
The Seychelles is protecting its coral reefs, it's replenishing its fisheries, it's improving its resilience to climate change.
It would allow vast tracks of the world's coral
reefs
to replenish and give safe harbor to countless species.
I'm haunted by the thought of what Ray Anderson calls "tomorrow's child," asking why we didn't do something on our watch to save sharks and bluefin tuna and squids and coral
reefs
and the living ocean while there still was time.
That's bad news for coral
reefs
and oxygen-producing plankton.
Half the coral
reefs
are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet.
I had to focus all my energies towards going to find new species of things down on deep coral
reefs.
Now, as I showed you in the earlier diagram, these
reefs
that we dive on start out near the surface and they go almost vertically, completely straight down.
There are over 500 fish species that live on Caribbean reefs, but the ones I just can't get out of my head are parrotfish.
Parrotfish live on coral
reefs
all over the world, there are 100 species, they can grow well over a meter long and weigh over 20 kilograms, but that's the boring stuff.
This is key, because many
reefs
are overgrown with algae due to nutrient pollution from sewage and fertilizer that runs off of land.
And there just aren't enough herbivores like parrotfish left out on the
reefs
to mow it all down.
Mottled and striped, teal, magenta, yellow, orange, polka-dotted, parrotfish are a big part of what makes coral
reefs
so colorful.
Because of climate change, on top of overfishing and pollution, coral
reefs
may be gone within 30 years.
This is devastating, because hundreds of millions of people around the world depend on
reefs
for their nutrition and income.
Meanwhile, 90 percent of the large fish, and 80 percent of the coral on Caribbean reefs, is already gone.
Because I don't know how to give an honest talk about my beloved parrotfish and coral
reefs
that has a happy ending.
We know that the outlook is grim: stocks collapsing on the front lines of climate change, warming seas, dying reefs, catastrophic storms, trawlers, factory fleets, rapacious ships from richer countries taking more than their share.
I was mesmerized by the coral
reefs
I explored, and certain I knew how to protect them, because science provided all the answers: close areas of the reef permanently.
I approached elders here in the village of Andavadoaka and recommended that they close off the healthiest and most diverse coral
reefs
to all forms of fishing to form a refuge to help stocks recover because, as the science tells us, after five or so years, fish populations inside those refuges would be much bigger, replenishing the fished areas outside, making everybody better off.
They outlawed fishing with poison and mosquito nets and set aside permanent refuges around threatened coral
reefs
and mangroves, including, to my astonishment, those same sights that I'd flagged just two years earlier when my evangelism for marine protection was so roundly rejected.
Ten years on, we're seeing recovery of those critical
reefs
within those refuges.
My sister and I started this project in 2005 because in that year, at least in the science press, there was a lot of talk about global warming, and the effect that global warming was having on coral
reefs.
A great deal of this has been happening in the Great Barrier Reef, particularly in coral
reefs
all over the world.
The people in Chicago decided that as well as exhibiting our reefs, what they wanted to do was have the local people there make a reef.
But it turns out there is a very good reason why we are crocheting it because many organisms in coral
reefs
have a very particular kind of structure.
Like adaptable artificial reefs, you could deploy them if there's a storm coming from one direction or another or if the seasons are changing, you can use these adaptable reef structures to use the force of the waves to accumulate sand.
Our tadpole-like ancestors flitted along ancient coastlines, while their eel-like relatives with gnashing throat teeth swam above the ice-cream cone corals of the first reefs, dodging school-bus-sized krakens and hungry sea scorpions.
For those of you who've been there, fantastic coral reefs, fantastic diving, fantastic snorkeling.
It's built entirely of coral
reefs.
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