Watershed Chats: Regenerating Reefs with Earthshot Prize recipient CORAL VITA

We’ve already lost 50% of Earth’s coral reefs. It's estimated that 90% will be gone by 2050 at the current pace of destruction. Coral Vita  just built the world’s first commercial land-based coral farm for reef restoration in The Bahamas.  They are regenerating reef systems with innovative methods that expedite the growth rate of corals, and allow for self-selection of the most resilient species to warming and acidifying conditions.

Gator Halpern co-founded Coral Vita as a way to take practical steps toward protecting the otherworldly underwater-scapes he experienced as a young diver. 

His team recently won the  Earthshot Prize,  a new global prize for the environment  funded by The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.   Five recipients are awarded the £1 Million prize each year, over the course of the next ten years,
providing at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030.

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