Hotel Three Sixty is a proud 'Coral Guardian' in Innoceana's coral adoption initiative, which aims to conserve and protect areas of the ocean critical to the future of humanity..
Corals, like all organisms, use their immune system to maintain health. Using immunology, Innoceana is working to understand why some corals can tolerate stressful events, like bleaching caused by warmer water, while other corals die.
With this knowledge, they aim to identify the coral species and colonies that are more likely to survive future stress events.
Using these ‘super corals’ in collaborative restoration projects, they aim to increase the long term survival of corals and coral reefs.
Due to the urgent nature of climate change, coral stress and mortality events are more frequent and more intense, and corals are dying faster than ever, threatening the coral reef ecosystem as a whole.
Core Issues
- Rapid decline of coral reefs
- Inefficiency in coral restoration methods
- The need to better study coral immunology
- Inefficiency and invasiveness of current monitoring methods
- Lack of Information on reef health and evolution over time
- Poor education and awareness of coral reef importance
Impacts of Research
Corals are vital components of ocean ecosystems, having existed long before humans. They provide numerous ecosystem services, including food, coastal protection, and habitats for marine biodiversity. With coral reefs disappearing rapidly, it is imperative to preserve them to maintain balance in ecosystems and the world as we know it.
