{"id":20317,"date":"2020-08-10T07:55:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=20317"},"modified":"2020-08-09T21:22:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T18:22:36","slug":"breakthrough-restored-corals-ready-to-become-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/environmental-news-en\/breakthrough-restored-corals-ready-to-become-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough: Restored Corals Ready to Become Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\"><p>For the first time, massive corals restored to Florida&#8217;s Coral Reef are ready to become parents in the wild\u2014a breakthrough in Mote Marine Laboratory&#8217;s scientific efforts to restore critically imperiled coral reefs, the \u201crainforests of the sea,\u201d to self-sustaining life.<\/p>\n<p>This month, Mote\u2019s coral reproduction scientist, Dr. Hanna Koch, identified gametes (eggs and sperm) inside colonies of two threatened, yet key, reef-building species that Mote restored to Florida Keys reefs in recent years: the massive or mounding species called mountainous star coral (Orbicella faveolata) and branching staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis). Both species are listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The presence of gametes indicates that these corals are sexually mature, gravid (pregnant), and ready to produce the next generation of coral \u201cbabies\u201d with fresh genetics to help revive declining coral populations.<\/p>\n<p>These corals are achieving critical milestones for the entire field of coral reef restoration\u2014showing the first signs that they are capable of producing new generations of corals on their own. These and other corals in Mote\u2019s restored populations survived big challenges to reach this point, demonstrating resilience. Their success validates the significance and progress of Mote\u2019s science-based, resilience-focused coral restoration.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enn.com\/articles\/64801-breakthrough-restored-corals-ready-to-become-parents\">Environmental News Network<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, massive corals restored to Florida&#8217;s Coral Reef are ready to become parents in the wild\u2014a breakthrough in Mote Marine Laboratory&#8217;s scientific&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":null,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":null,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[5221,6068,692],"class_list":["post-20317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environmental-news-en","tag-coral-reef","tag-corals","tag-restoration","wpcat-31-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/reef-984352_1280.jpg?fit=100%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20319,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20317\/revisions\/20319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}