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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Donna Lu

‘A beautiful milestone’: coral grown in Great Barrier Reef nursery spawns for first time

Corals grown in an offshore “coral nursery” at Fitzroy Island on the Great Barrier Reef have spawned for the first time, four years after being planted.

A team at the Reef Restoration Foundation has observed Acropora corals, each about 1 metre in diameter, spawning at the island’s Welcome Bay nursery site.

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