Corals harvested from the Florida Keys have been successfully crossbred with the goal of enhancing genetic diversity and disease resistance, which could better protect and restore corals that have been
Hotels offer financial enticement for employees to get vaccinated
Article by June 9, 2021
With health authorities appealing to employees in the hotel and hospitality sectors to urgently get the COVID-19 vaccine, at least two local properties have decided to offer cash to get the attention of their staff.
But the decision by management of Coral Reef Club and sister hotel The Sandpiper to give their 350 members of staff a financial nudge to take the vaccine, has resulted in mixed reactions from some sections of the public, the trade union movement and senior health officials.
In a memorandum dated June 6, 2021, directors of Coral Reef Club informed its employees that the company was offering two workers a chance to win a grand prize of $500 in a raffle draw that takes place on July 5.
Reef-wide outplanting of corals susceptible to stony coral tissue loss disease begins
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and our coral reef restoration partners announce the recent successful outplanting of 1,152 coral colonies along Florida’s Coral Reef as part of the largest coordinated experimental outplanting effort in Florida to date.
Reef restoration experiments in Florida have never been replicated on such a large scale before, with 24 outplanting sites spanning from Martin County down the coast of southeast Florida to Key West.
The purpose of this project is to determine the fate of corals that are susceptible to stony coral tissue loss disease when outplanted across Florida’s coral reef where the disease is still present but no longer found in epidemic proportions. The knowledge gained during this study will pave the way for future expansions in the restoration of disease-sus
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