华盛顿特区海洋水族徒协会（WAMAS）已向Great Barrier Reef Legacy Living Coral Biobank项目捐赠了20,000美元。该项目的目的总部位于澳大利亚的道格拉斯港，是通过创建世界的FIR来保护所有已知的硬珊瑚物种的生物多样性t活珊瑚生物库。目前，生物库中有132种珊瑚，占大屏障硬珊瑚珊瑚种类的33％以上。珊瑚通过查理·维隆博士该计划是在年底之前收集多达50％，并最终从世界各地的所有800种硬珊瑚物种收集，以便他们解决这些问题，传播它们并保护它们为子孙后代。
Colonies are currently collected and kept in a dedicated holding facility with an 8,000 fragment capacity. With help from WAMAS, a second, larger, and publicly accessible facility at Cairns Aquarium is now underway. The new facility will be capable of housing another 12,000 live coral fragments with corals from both sites available for reef research and restoration efforts.
“We have been absolutely humbled by the support and generosity we are seeing from the US reef-keeping community, with everything from registering interest in looking after corals fragments within home and office tanks, to adopting individual coral fragments within our facility, and now with large donations such as that made by WAMAS,” says Dr. Dean Miller Managing Director of Great Barrier Reef Legacy and Project leader of the Living Coral Biobank Project.
“我们很高兴能与礁石建设社区合作，以迅速成为拯救大堡礁上珊瑚生物多样性的最大保护努力之一。正是通过血汗，眼泪以及磨砂礁社区和工业的磨练技能，专业知识和设备的多年，才是实现这一目标。”
Tom Land is President of WAMAS,which has donated a staggering $90,000自2015年以来，要对海洋保护进行。“汤姆·兰德（Tom Land）表示，气候变化对全球礁生态系统的威胁构成感到震惊。迫切需要解决这些栖息地的生物多样性的解决方案。伟大的Barrier Reef Legacy团队正在做出色的创新工作，Wamas自豪地支持。我们很高兴和兴奋地能够继续为领先的珊瑚礁保存计划做出有意义的贡献，例如活着的珊瑚生物银行项目以及凯恩斯的新型更大的设施。我们希望我们的捐款能够帮助领导北美礁社区的更大支持。”
新的Cairns Aquarium设施是一种最先进的设施，但是是一个现成的系统，它将在世界各地需要保存的地方复制。
