Nov 4, 2024 · Coral IVF is a world-leading technique to grow baby corals and use them to restore damaged coral reefs. Our researchers capture coral eggs and sperm, called spawn, from healthy reefs and rear millions of baby corals in specially-designed floating …

Coral IVF. During mass coral spawning, our researchers capture excess coral eggs and sperm from healthy reefs and rear millions of baby corals in specially designed floating pools. These young corals are then placed on damaged reefs, helping to repopulate and restore them.

Dec 6, 2021 · Our first batch of Coral IVF babies, which we grew from microscopic larvae and planted on the Reef in 2016, have reproduced for the first time, giving hope that this innovative technique could successfully restore damaged reefs.

Dec 29, 2021 · Researcher Peter Harrison is reseeding the Great Barrier Reef using a process he likens to in vitro fertilization (IVF) for coral. It could help reefs around the world.

Coral IVF – the use of naturally occurring coral spawning to restore damaged reef systems – has proven to be effective for restoring breeding corals on badly damaged reefs in the Philippines, and the challenge now is to scale this success to larger reef areas including the Great Barrier Reef.

Sep 23, 2024 · Over the next months, the scientists documented the health of juvenile coral of six species, all IVF-conceived, across five sites in the Caribbean Sea from Curacao to the U.S. Virgin Islands. On Wednesday, their peer-reviewed study, published in the scientific journal PLOSONE, shows that there is reason for hope.

The coral IVF program is one of more than 60 projects being delivered by the Foundation who immediately saw the potential of this game-changing technique and, with its research partners, now aims to accelerate the regrowth of corals and deliver new life to the reef.

Feb 10, 2025 · Coral IVF is the first project of its kind to re-establish coral breeding populations on damaged reefs. Great Barrier Reef Foundation researchers are giving nature a helping hand by collecting millions of coral eggs and sperm during the spawning season, growing them into baby coral and releasing them onto degraded areas of the Reef.

Nov 17, 2024 · Scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and Taronga Conservation Society trained the Woppaburra people and neighbouring Indigenous Rangers in gathering coral spawn,...

In a world-first, our researchers have successfully pioneered small-scale coral restoration using a technique dubbed Coral IVF. Coral only spawns once a year in a natural phenomenon that has been described as an underwater snowstorm with millions of …