Saving Coral Reefs from Their Saviors Coral reef restoration has been touted as a silver bullet for saving these vital ecosystems, but billions of dollars invested in replanting corals have yielded disappointing results.
Rising ocean temperatures are killing off the very corals that conservation efforts aim to revive.
The problem lies not just in scaling up the effort or throwing more money at it, but in a fundamental flaw in the approach: reef restoration assumes that coral reefs can be restored to their former glory, an assumption that may no longer be valid.