保护

珊瑚Gardening In Koh Tao Thailand

珊瑚Gardening

If you’ve ever been scuba diving in Thailand, chances are you’ve heard of Koh Tao. This tiny island in the Gulf of Thailand is tailored for scuba divers, and pumps out thousands and thousands of certified divers every year.
岛屿周围的珊瑚礁必须与所有这些新潜水员以及气候变化的生态威胁争辩。珊瑚fragments can easily break from an errant fin kick as new divers struggling to control their buoyancy, and coral reefs around the island need all the help they can get.
Frank van Klaveren and Vera Aarden founded CoralGardening from their love of coral reefs and passion for preserving marine ecosystems. They discovered their shared passion for the ocean while working together on marine conservation projects in Thailand and the Philippines.
In 2008 they monitored a bay in which 80% of the hard coral had decreased to 30% due to erosion from land. Next to a lot of work from the local community to prevent further erosion they built the first artificial reef structure in that bay in order to attract marine life. The corals transplanted on the Fish Nursery survived the severe 2010 bleaching (april-october) and it hosted over 100 species of fish within 3 years.

珊瑚Gardening Koh Tao

In Koh Tao, the CoralGardening team uses two methods for regrowing corals. The first method is by collecting corals of opportunity. These are small coral fragments which are found loose on the sea floor, and would have little to no chance of survival if not collected and replanted.
第二种方法由他们当地的合作伙伴和当地珊瑚专家提供来自新的天堂礁保护计划。通过收集珊瑚精子和鸡蛋被催化到海湾中，然后它们能够在受控环境中抬起珊瑚幼虫，直到它们足够大以移植到珊瑚礁上。这种方法需要很多耐心，因为新的珊瑚幼虫可能需要一年，直到它们足够大于野外空间的内容。
In 2010 they had successfully collected and raised coral larvae, but due to the severe bleaching event none of these recruits survived. In 2014 earlier raised recruit were transplanted back on the reef.

Flower ‘Power’ Reef

提出的珊瑚碎片，收获或俘虏，种植在模块化花卉结构上。花有多个叶子，可以附着在花底座上。花在土地上手工制作，与当地社区，潜水学校和游客合作，使用钢钢筋，鸡丝和混凝土。
The system is designed to be modular which comes in handy when transporting and installing the structures in the sea. The leaves are covered in a rough cement and given grooves to represent the veins running through the leaves.

These grooves are not only aesthetic but provide the ideal habitat for coral larvae to settle and become established. Larvae prefer white and pink colors of a healthy reef and will tend to settle in grooves or crevices for a better chance at survival.
为了防止生锈的帧，通过结构运行低压电流。这种方法不仅在海湾保持锈，还鼓励溶解的矿物质结晶和碳酸钙，以在框架上积聚。这种电解矿物吸收方法产生了有利的环境，其中珊瑚幼虫可以更容易地沉降。
The design of the structures is created for the purpose to build a new reef which attracts marine life, for transplanting corals and has room for divers to be educated and improve their buoyancy skills. The design of flowers and hands making “wai” is a gesture in accordance with Thai culture. It represents Koh Tao community’s respect to nature.