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Volunteers help reattach corals wrecked by Hurricane Lowell

Original: Today I did some light duty bundling potatoes of cement into ziplocs for swimmers to float out to a dive team that's rea

A volunteer has described bundling cement weights into ziploc bags for swimmers ferrying to a dive team reattaching corals to a reef damaged by Hurricane Lowell. The restoration work is being funded through an insurance policy taken out by The Nature Conservancy, part of a growing use of reef insurance to pay for rapid post-storm repair of marine ecosystems.

Why now: Reef restoration funded by an unusual insurance policy is a novel conservation story drawing attention

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• Today I did some light duty bundling potatoes of cement into ziplocs for swimmers to float out to a dive team that's reattaching corals to a reef that was wrecked by Hurricane Lowell. The work is paid for by an insurance policy taken out by The Nature Conservancy. They were… · brianvastag@mas.to · 8

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