Have you heard of trees that create billions of baby fish and crabs, help protect people on islands from the monster waves of tropical storms, and stand on stilts above the ocean?
Coral reefs are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth. Image courtesy of Andrés Felipe Suárez-Castro. Coral reefs around the world are facing many conservation challenges. Approximately half of the world’s coral reefs have experienced decline of coral since the 1990s. One of the problems…