There is an area that is the oceans, coral reefs.

Very unlikely, Joe would jump on a pristine coral reef, a virgin coral reef with lots of coral, sharks, crocodiles, manatees, groupers, turtles, etc.

The coral reefs of the north coast of Jamaica have a few percent live coral cover and a lot of seaweed and slime.

104. Welcomes the publication of the Status of Coral Reefs in Tsunami Affected Countries 2005 by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network

These are crinoids, sponges, black corals. There're some more fishes.

It's about a meter tall Pavona clavus colony.

There's no coral, algae growing on it, and the water's pea soup.

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And that is the same reef that's the same reef 15 years ago that's the same reef today.

And that's more or less the story of the coral reefs of the Caribbean, and increasingly, tragically, the coral reefs worldwide.

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The main attractions are the sand, sun and coral seas.

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Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps.

Margaret Wertheim The beautiful math of coral

There is an area that is the oceans, coral reefs.

Are you collecting coral

And the algae give the corals sugar, and the corals give the algae nutrients and protection.

Speaking on behalf of the Joint Secretariat of the International Coral Reef Initiative, he drew attention to the destructive effects of marine debris on coral reefs.

This is a Brain Coral living in Tobago that's around 2,000 years old.

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Who told you that, Coral?

This is a bleached coral, coral that died during the 1982 '83 El Nino.

This coral is eight meters tall, right.

And on top of the coral reefs are sand banks.

All that white coral.

Table 14. Coral room.

Solid coral. Back off. Over this way.

And that coral was growing happily in those shallow waters, until 1954, when the earthquake happened.

The establishment of marine parks for the protection of coral reefs and sea grass beds is an integral part of the fisheries programme.

So we had our own miniature rainforest, a private beach with a coral reef.

So what is this hyperbolic geometry that corals and sea slugs embody?

This is a golden coral, a bush.

They're The Southern Cross above coral reefs.

And so this one we decided to give the name Centropyge narcosis to.

There's this beautiful bay, lots of soft corals and stomatopods.

Provision of support for the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) and the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN) for promoting effective and sustainable coral reef management practices.

We're crocheting a coral reef.

I'm going, Miss Coral, I'm going!

Those reefs at Discovery Bay, Jamaica were the most studied coral reefs in the world for 20 years.