Jodie Rummer

I witnessed a sight underwater that no marine biologist, and no person with a love and appreciation for the natural world for that matter, wants to see, the bleaching now is not just restricted to the hard corals. There’s also extensive bleaching in the soft corals, and it is also affecting anemones and giant clams.

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We know that many of these tropical populations of reef fishes cannot tolerate dramatic increases in temperatures for extended periods of time. So it may be just a matter of time before the fish start feeling the heat as well, we’re watching them closely.

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Even the most robust corals require nearly a decade to recover. So we're really losing that window of recovery, we're getting back-to-back bleaching events, back-to-back heat waves. And, and the corals just aren't adapting to these new conditions.