Can We Relocate Coral Reefs to Save Them?

Assisted migration cannot solve the problem of coral reef decline, or create new ecosystems, but it could help preserve and save certain coral species. To protect coral, marine biologists and conservationists are pushing globally for coral restoration projects. These projects seek to return coral to previously denuded or impacted areas, aiming to repopulate the reefs with coral and marine life. The problem with returning the same species of coral to an area where it has previously died is that without mitigating the cause of its death, at some point, it will face the same eventuality.That’s where assisted migration comes in.