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Coral restoration is a speculative, feel-good science that won’t save our reefs

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par Robert Paul Streit, Research Fellow in Just Ocean Governance, The University of Melbourne
David Roy Bellwood, Professor, James Cook University
Tiffany Morrison, Professorial Research Fellow, James Cook University and Professor, The University of Melbourne

Climate change has killed billions of corals and fundamentally changed coral reefs. The response, especially in Australia, has been to fix the symptoms, not address the cause – climate change for which humans are responsible.

Much money and research effort is expended in replacing, regrowing and supporting corals, in the hope reefs may survive a warmer world.

These technological and scientific “solutions” give hope that something can be done. But as we argue in Nature Climate Change today, there is…

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