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Pillar Coral Proposed for Increased Endangered Species Act Protection
WASHINGTON— The National Marine Fisheries Service proposed today to change the status of the pillar coral, a species found in Florida waters and elsewhere in the Caribbean, from threatened to ...
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Caribbean’s Pillar Coral Protected as Endangered
MIAMI— The National Marine Fisheries Service issued a final rule today to change the status of the pillar coral, a species found in Florida waters and elsewhere in the Caribbean, from threatened to ...
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Nonprofit's success with 40k coral plantings is a big win for Caribbean reefs, after years of being ravaged by coral disease
Grad season came early for Fundación Dominicana de Estudios Marinos (FUNDEMAR), a coral reef restoration organization based ...
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Subfossil Hard Pillar Coral (IMAGE)
A closeup of a well-preserved Late Holocene hard pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus), now genetically extinct along the Florida reef tract due to a disease outbreak in 2014.
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Half of Atlantic reef-building corals at elevated risk of extinction due to climate change and other threats (IMAGE)
Two Critically Endangered coral species: Staghorn Coral (Acropora cervicornis) and Pillar Coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus) at Roatán, Honduras.