One Man's Quest To Restore Florida's Coral Reef
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Ken Nedimyer first dived into the pristine waters off the Florida Keys at the tender age of 13, whilst on vacation with his parents. He loved it so much, that he returned in 1969, to obtain a degree in Zoology from the Florida Atlantic University and never left.
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- Antonio Garcia13년 이상The problem is that coral reefs are dieing. The reason they are dieing is because they have been expereincing extreme weather. Right after they were recovering from the Band disease a Hurricane destroyed the coral reefs. They tried to plant more coral reefs and then used the same method to help restore Florida's coral. If they had not done this the Global Warming that is predicted in 50 years would have done more damage to the coral reefs. They still keep planting coral reefs so when the Global Warming come they will not do as much damage.
- Alexis L13년 이상The problem is that coarls are getting weak so this is causing many things to happen than we will not have coarls. So than the coarls skin falls off.
- Alex Perez13년 이상The coral is being destroyed. Scientist estimated about 25% was destroyed. And maybe in 50 years more than half of the coral will be lost. The rising sea level temperature and high carbon dioxide from global warming is destroying the sea. Also a disease called White Band destroyed coral. And hurricanes destroys coral. All this destroys coral to make a problem of disappearing coral. To fix this they re-plant coral. They call this coral re-planting. I hope the coral re-plant will work and save all the coral.
- Alex Perez13년 이상The coral is being destroyed. Scientist estimated about 25% was destroyed. And maybe in 50 years more than half of the coral will be lost. The rising sea level temperature and high carbon dioxide from global warming is destroying the sea. Also a disease called White Band destroyed coral. And hurricanes destroys coral. All this destroys coral to make a problem of disappearing coral. To fix this they re-plant coral. They call this coral re-planting. I hope the coral re-plant will work and save all the coral.
- Rebecca L.13년 이상The coral reefs were being wiped out! What is causing this is are the cold fonts! Also if that is not bad enough a couple of hurrcains blew right past when they werre recovering. After that all happened they desised to plant plants to save the coralreefs.
- Ryan Callanan13년 이상The problem for the Florida coral reefs is they are not growing due to bad weather. There are two thing causing the problem with the reefs. One was two series of cold fronts that hit the Florida area in 1977 that caused a severe impact to the two Florida coral reefs Staghorn and Elkhorn. The second was in 1985 when two very powerful hurricanes hit Florida endangering the two coral reefs Staghorn and Elkhorn. The way they're trying solving the problems is they are planting more Staghorn every year in hopes of making them not endangered anymore. They also have a program called the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary where people protect and try to restore the coral.
- Camryn H.13년 이상The problem is that the coral reefs are getting weak and dying. This is happening because the water is getting cold, there are hurricanes, and the White Band Disease. The solutions that are being attempted to solve this problem are that the Marine Biologists are planting coral reafs in the ocean floor to help the number of coral reefs increase.
- jose13년 이상The problem is people are cutting corals for there own needs, and rising sea level.There are cold temperature that is the last reason why they are dieing.One why they can survive is hot temperature.
- Gabby T.13년 이상The problem is that Florida's coral reef is disappearing and 25 percent of the world's coral is gone. Hurricanes are hitting the coast, extreme temperatures, and the White Band disease are killing the coral. But, the Florida Keys' National Marine Sanctuary are helping and the people are working on the Coral Restoration project.
- lucas L.13년 이상The problem with Florida's Coral Reef was they were not surviving because of White Band disease and hurricanes. In the story it said that a series of cold fronts and hurricanes destroyed the Coral Reef. To solve this problem Ken and his daughter are trying to grow Corals. The Florida National Marine Sanctuary gave him money to use and help the Coral to grow.