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December 12 2011
BIOROCK® VERSUS NOAA The US Government Agency NOAA has just issued a press release extolling the great success of their reef restoration project a ship grounding in the Florida Keys: http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20111209_floridakeys.htmlSome 376 square feet of coral was damaged, and NOAA restored it at a cost of $56,671.27 or $1622.35 per square meter. In contrast Biorock reef restoration, which unlike NOAA’s methods, greatly accelerates coral settlement, growth, survival, and resistance to environmental stresses including severe high temperatures, costs around $1.60-$2.80 per square meter for restoration not using vertical structures, and up to $13-$20 for reef structures 2 meters high: http://www.globalcoral.org/WRR%20Goreau%20HYPERLINK "http://www.globalcoral.org/WRR%20Goreau%20&%20Hilbertz%202005.pdf"&HYPERLINK "http://www.globalcoral.org/WRR%20Goreau%20&%20Hilbertz%202005.pdf"%20Hilbertz%202005.pdfThat is to say Biorock is hundreds of times cheaper as well as being far more effective. Results of Biorock reef restoration at a site that was almost barren of live corals and fishes at the time we started can be seen at: Biorock reef restoration in Pemuteran, Bali, Indonesia , filmed by Rani Morrow-Wuigk for the UN sponsored world-wide TV program One Day On Earth in early 2012, featuring great projects from every country in the world. |
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