Coral for cash

Georgia Institute of Technology from the US and the University of the South Pacific are giving Fijians an opportunity to protect their coral reef legacy while reaping financial benefits from their coral conservation efforts.

Villagers will plant synthetic rock in the ocean and wait for marine life to cover. Once sea life is present the synthetic rock will be harvested as a green product and sold to individual and public aquariums around the world.The project is designed to prevent purposeful coral breakage.


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